Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority
9:00 am
Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source
It is amazing to members of the public and of this committee that it can take from April to February of the following year for An Garda Síochána to prepare a report which the Policing Authority found acceptable. Although I accept what Ms Feehily says on the subject, to many people it seems - at least initially in the April presentation - some deliberately misleading information was supplied.
I have questions on the manner in which the Policing Authority worked on this report. Does it have a view on how it should engage with people within An Garda Síochána who decide to make contact, be they serving members of the force or civilian staff?