Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

I am very aware of the recent trial. As in all such cases all the parties involved are entitled to and need to be afforded due process, natural justice and fair procedure. Beyond that I do not want to talk about the court case or the process.

Assistant Commissioner Barry O'Brien was appointed to conduct a review from a lessons learned perspective, of the circumstances surrounding the events that unfolded in Tallaght. I am very conscious that I am constrained and precluded from saying too much because several matters remain before the courts and I do not want to say anything that would in any way prejudice or jeopardise anything that is going on at the moment. If anybody has concerns about anything that transpired arising from-----