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:

Our staff, as Mr. Justice MacCabe has said, work 24-7, so we do receive a number of call-outs and respond to critical or serious incidents outside hours, at weekends and throughout the night. I would not say that in any way the majority of those investigations are like that, but we do respond outside of hours to serious incidents and to calls for assistance from the public or referrals from the Garda Síochána.