Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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My first question is for the AGSI. Listening to the presentations and the comments at the conference of the GRA, which has not made a submission but hopefully will at some stage, I heard about a charter of fairness in terms of the rights of members of the Garda Síochána. The other issues raised were that these investigations can be expensive and the money is taken from the Garda budget rather than the GSOC budget. These are reasonable points. There is wide consensus that we need to give GSOC more powers and also to listen to the experience of serving members of the Garda Síochána about the rights of its members, the process and how it is working. Perhaps we can get more information on that and on getting the balance right. Does the association agree with the call for a charter of fairness?