Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Report on Crime Investigation 2014: Garda Inspectorate

2:30 pm

Mr. Robert K. Olson:

I will comment on that and Mr. Toland can follow up on what I say afterwards. We were cognisant of this issue as we conducted that portion of the report. It was interesting that the national units had never been inspected or audited previously. It was a bit of a culture shock when we showed up, but they were great and co-operated fully and told us what they were doing. This included any issues that might touch upon terrorism, national security and so on. We made some confidential recommendations to the Minister relative to this issue, but that should not be made public.

The short answer is we looked at those kinds of issues and made some recommendations on them. Perhaps Mr. Toland would like to comment further on this.