Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 April 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons

9:30 am

Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

The policing, security and community safety Bill is a big undertaking, which has just completed pre-legislative scrutiny. We hope to get the report from the justice committee on it. In terms of the projects, the Deputy is absolutely right that there will be a real implementation challenge and a huge number of regulations to be made once the legislation is done. On the preparatory work to implement the measures, there is a huge amount of change involved for the oversight bodies in particular, but also for An Garda Síochána and the Department itself. We have an implementation project. I will ask Mr. O’Sullivan to come in on this because it is under his remit. We have approximately seven individual projects, one of which is in relation to GSOC and the changes that will be needed there. We are doing a review of how the process will operate. I ask Mr. O’Sullivan to come in at this point.