Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Is it fair to say that one of the criticisms the Policing Authority made of this approach was that the people who were contacted with any further queries were in fact the same superintendents who were in charge of those initial investigations? As such, there was not really any independent oversight.

They confirmed that they were satisfied that these investigations were carried out to the adequate standard for a homicide investigation but, of course, that is what one would expect them to do, given that they had carried out these investigations in the first place.