Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:30 am

Mr. Drew Harris:

They were cancelled initially. Our subsequent follow-up and examination of the cases, including engagement with the victims in all of them - it has not just been a desktop process; we have re-engaged with all the victims - have intimated that 134 crimes have been missed that should have been subsequently investigated. There may have been a prosecution but we cannot be clear because, in effect, we missed the opportunity to investigate and report the matter.