Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have just received a report from the Garda Inspectorate and I thank the three people involved in producing it, led by Mr. Robert Olson, chief inspector of the Garda Inspectorate. The report contains 500 recommendations and it suggests I establish a number of groups in the Department and the criminal justice system. The report suggests the establishment of an overarching criminal justice expert group to lead the implementation of the report's recommendations and it also makes a series of recommendations for the Garda to implement.

I understand Deputy Collins's suggestion as there is logic in it but my primary obligation as Minister for Justice and Equality is to oversee the implementation of the Garda Inspectorate report. We can consider the Deputy's point and may implement it in future but there is much work to be done now on the recommendations in the Garda Inspectorate report.

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