Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 April 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission

9:30 am

Ms Emily Logan:

At present, we have to do it at the beginning when the complaint comes in and that creates huge complexity because there is quite a difference in the threshold between a criminal investigation and a disciplinary one, as the Deputy will know. The new legislation simplifies that and allows GSOC to get into and conclude an investigation in a much more efficient way.