Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
2:00 am
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I am going to stop the Commissioner Harris. Will he send us a note on what training has started and so on in view of yesterday as we are all interested?
I will go on to my final two matters I want to discuss. What percentage of An Garda Síochána atá in ann a gcuid oibre a dhéanamh trí Ghaeilge?
My final matter relates to public policing. I want to see more policing. I read all the documents. We all want visibility. Then we come back to the protest and the allegation about a strip search, which is strictly not related to this committee. I am asking for an update. There has been a complete denial by An Garda Síochána, which I understand, about the strip search allegation. I understand there is an update and that the woman in question has come back through her solicitor. I realise the sensitivity around it. Could the Commissioner give an update on that and on the Irish language?