Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Changing Policing in Ireland Report: Garda Inspectorate

9:30 am

Mr. Robert K. Olson:

We believe they can. There are many recommendations, especially on technology, that they did not have the money for and they said they could not implement them until they had. Clearly, they are capable of implementing these recommendations. It is just a matter of good governance and good administration and getting in there and doing it. There is an opportunity for that to happen and we are hopeful that they will. They got halfway with many of them, but then, for whatever reason, they were unable to keep them going.