Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission

9:30 am

Mr. Justice Rory MacCabe:

We had an independent look-back and look-forward conducted in the past couple of years on the way we do our work. Some changes we have made in the meantime, together with the streamlining of the work that is implicit in the new Act, will help. It is a simple formula. The processes are better now as a result of the work we have done and will be better because of the new Act. The only way to reduce the time it takes to complete investigations is to have more people on the job doing the work. It is simple enough, provided we get the processes right.