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:

I will expand on the oversight piece of it. The oversight elements that are in place at the moment in all the agencies have been added individually over the years. GSOC was created in approximately 2006 and the Policing Authority in around 2015, so they are piecemeal. The intention of the Bill is to make that coherent. It does not make it much simpler, but it makes the processes more coherent.