Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 April 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 41 - Policing Authority

9:30 am

Ms Helen Hall:

No, there is just one piece of work from Toland and Byrne on Article 2. We did a particular piece of oversight which ran across 2016 to 2019, namely, the homicide review. At the end of that, there was a residual question around Article 2 and the right to life, but, more particularly, the right of those left behind to have a death appropriately investigated. The report stemmed from the homicide investigations. The authority wanted legal advice on the position around what would be expected for the future in terms of the safeguards to make sure that the Garda had the right things in place. It was really to facilitate our oversight of these investigations in future. It was not to look at a specific case but it was just a piece of legal advice.