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

Ms Lois West:

There might have been a number of reasons. When we inquired, the rationale we were given was the particular group had been given a very narrow brief, that it had only been asked to look at the particular sample period between 2013 and 2015, whereas Ms Galligan and I had entered into the project on the understanding it was a much bigger, broader piece of work.