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:

The case management system is antiquated. The kinds of questions that we have been asked today cannot be elicited from the current system that we have. As part of our transition, the project we talked about starting last year, one of the big things that we will be doing is investing time, effort and money into a new system. We are talking to sister organisations about how best to do that. That includes everything from equity of access up to some of the more complicated questions about cases, prosecution, disciplinary cases and all of the questions that we have been asked today. It is fair and frank to say that we are not getting the definitive information that we need from the existing system and we need a new system.