Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion

10:30 am

Dr. Gurchand Singh:

I would say, to be on the safe side, it will be about five to six months. We must be mindful that not everything is in our control here. For example, we are reliant on access to the State Pathologist's lab and so are reliant on their goodwill. We have only one person who is very expert in this area to whom we are assigning this job, so I would say about five to six months. I refer to the review of those pathological reports and looking at the comparison with PULSE. Then there is the question of the investigations. They froze up, so I cannot comment on how long that part of the review would take.