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

Ms Josephine Feehily:

I am not identifying a particular telephone call because I do not know what the Deputy is speaking about. What I am saying is that during the months of July and August, following our June public meeting, there was a huge degree of concern within the authority on a range of matters. At the time we were in the middle of a piece of work around breath tests and governance issues in that regard. I was actively encouraging that we needed to see real progress by September and that we would not accept a report unless it had been signed off by the analysis service. In regard to the specific telephone call to which the Deputy refers, I do not know.