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

Mr. Hugh Hume:

I refute that. A lot of the engagement moved online and our telephone service was always available for people to make contact with staff, case workers and investigators and some engagement occurred off site. I would not say we used it as an excuse. It was a practical outworking of the pandemic that meant we had to limit our engagement within those roles far more.