Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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I made that first submission. It is now mandatory. When is the investigations unit going to prepare a page indicating to people what their rights are at the very beginning? There would then be no ambiguity. I said their rights were circumscribed and I did not use that word lightly.

How many of those who have been investigated have been advised that they are entitled to legal representation from the off, rather than when the game is over, the statement is taken and their name has been signed at the bottom? Will the committee make a recommendation that in these investigations people be informed from the beginning of their entitlements and rights when they enter a Garda station?