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 most serious investigations under the current legislation are under section 102 that relate to such cases as referred to by Mr. Hume earlier that we are obliged to look at, such as serious harm and death. That is the extreme end of those. The commission would meet at the beginning of the investigation, under section 91. The investigating team would examine it and then recommend an investigation be opened.