Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologised to the House for the reference to section 80(5); I had misquoted the section of the Act. However, the point is that in regard to the responsibility of GSOC which is to oversee the Garda Síochána, when GSOC initiates a public investigation into a matter of public interest, it can only be about the Garda.

In that sense, section 103 states that the commission shall provide the Minister with information regarding what it has done. GSOC has dealt with that issue. The commission stated that it considered the decision to be very difficult, it chose not to inform the Minister at the time and it regretted that. The matter has been dealt with.

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