Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick East, Fine Gael)

Gardaí do fantastic work and have great knowledge. The Offences against the State Act requires that opinion evidence be given by a chief superintendent or a more senior garda. The evidence referred to in this section is slightly different. For a garda to report to a chief superintendent seems a more formal way of achieving the same result. When the evidence is presented in court it will have gone through the normal procedures within the Garda Síochána. The term "expert evidence" can be appropriately applied to such evidence.

Progress reported; Committee to sit again.

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