Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Priorities for Garda Inspectorate: Discussion

9:00 am

Ms Éimear Fisher:

I would like to reiterate the point made by Mr. Toland in respect of secrets and confidentiality. We treat all our interactions with members of the force, Garda staff and our stakeholders with the highest confidentiality. If an issue is raised about policy or it is an issue that rightly that needs further attention, we would never use identifying factors to name the individual, unit or whatever. Any identifying factors are stripped away and, therefore, the issue is raised in a way that maintains the confidence of the person. That is important to the inspectorate because of the confidentiality of the work we do.