Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Oversight: Discussion (Resumed)
2:25 pm
Alan Farrell (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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As a follow-up to that question, I was thinking, for instance, of when a serving member of the force happens to have certain items on their own premises. While such members are carrying out the course of their duties, they just happen to have it in a personal vehicle that they might be using, for example. There have been instances mentioned in recent years of serving members of An Garda Síochána using their own vehicles. I wonder whether the role of GSOC would include that. While taking on board what Baroness O'Loan said about the criminal investigation, I am just thinking of an investigation being carried out by GSOC and whether, in her view, it would or should extend to that.