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:

Let me answer two things. First, one must be mindful that when we raised this issue in November, part of the purpose was to say we had concerns. That is important. We wanted to actually have this exercise and run it by the review group to see if the concerns were real. That was the purpose.

On the question of whether we got to see the final report, I have already said we did not get an opportunity to sign off on the final report, for whatever reason. When we did review it, there were elements with which clearly we could not agree.