Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I thank the two delegates for appearing before us and giving a very courageous account of what they have experienced as civilians working in An Garda Síochána. Their presentations illustrate very concerning levels of dysfunction at an organisational level where there is a clear mismatch between what is being pronounced publicly or to us as committee members and what is happening behind closed doors. It is a case of déjà vuwith respect to data and the PULSE system. Clearly, there are systemic problems. Ms West and Ms Galligan commenced a review and were part of the group which held nine meetings. Ms West has mentioned that she was instructed not to send the summary to the policy development, implementation and monitoring, PDIM, group. What does she believe was the motivation behind stopping the summary being sent to that group?