Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
2:00 am
Mr. Justin Kelly:
In my experience, the detail of a controlled delivery would often come out. Obviously if there is a full hearing or a contested trial, all that detail will come out. It would be unusual for it to come out with regard to bail. A bail application is usually related to the risk that the person will not show at the next appearance if they are granted bail. The general detail of the case obviously comes up in bail hearings. It is generally around what the charges are and the seriousness of the charges. That is usually what the bail application concentrates on. It would be unusual to go into a lot of granular detail around that for bail because that is not the issue. The issue is whether there is risk of flight, the seriousness of the offence, etc. There is a whole raft of things considered in bail applications. There is legislation around this. There are the various Bail Acts. Like I said, usually the granular detail would not come out in that. That would come out-----