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 were a number of references to difficulties and issues that there had been, and an impression given that the database had been rectified. We had concerns because we had not been asked to conduct any checks to verify that and because we had felt a little excluded, we were not necessarily sure about what work was going on behind the scenes. We felt the need to check and verify that. We also knew at that time that we were not satisfied because there was still no agreement in relation to the 41 cases.