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:

It is certainly a very long timeframe. There is no doubt about that. I was not there at the time, to understand all the nuances. While I have read the background material in anticipation of the Deputy's question and examined the file, there were 56 separate allegations. It all had to be dealt with criminally across a broad spectrum of activity that preceded the unfortunate terrible accident, and succeeded the incident as well, as the Deputy will be perhaps aware. It was a broad nature.