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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I do not see this as an employment matter or a professional conflict. I see it as the authority denying itself access to information that would have assisted it in fulfilling its statutory role, which is to oversee the performance of An Garda Síochána in its functions, because that was the nature of the information that was brought to it, and the analysts were the only people who had that information.