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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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Are there examples of such investigations? I am not sure the public fully understands. We have the same problem here in the Committee of Public Accounts, whereby people may believe that if an issue does not fit somewhere else, they can send a letter to the Committee of Public Accounts. Sometimes it is more about public accountability than public accounts. In the context of understanding GSOC's role and the public understanding of the role, I see, for example, that 855 complaints were determined as inadmissible. In many cases that may well be people inappropriately directing complaints to the commission rather than being vexatious complaints.