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

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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Much of that was highlighted by the two women who appeared before the committee and flagged it in their initial report in November 2016. This is March 2018. If the authority had taken on board their information and brought it to the attention of the Minister in the course of the last year, we could have been where we are now a year ago. That is the point. They raised the issue with their management but they would not deal with them so they took the matter to the authority, but they found the door closed to them. That is a fact.