Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion

10:30 am

Mr. Michael Finn:

We had a degree of satisfaction that the investigations were carried out. The Policing Authority asked would it not be prudent to get a peer review done of these investigations in order that everyone would be satisfied. Therefore, we brought forward Mr. Sutton and his team to get in someone independent to do that reassessment in order that we could reassure everyone for once and for all that these investigations were carried out and were compliant with Article 2 and that we now have them classified in the correct order so that the CSO, when it publishes its homicides statistics, can state with confidence it has all these homicides correctly recorded and can publish those statistics. That is the process that is taking place at present.