Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

While we accept that the new independent Garda authority will provide a degree of oversight, it is a work in progress and we have yet to see how it rolls out. Members of the public who feel the Garda Commissioner of the day has wronged them want to be able to make complaints through the normal complaints mechanism. The flip-side is that for GSOC to be truly independent, so that it can carry out its remit, everybody in the organisation should be subject to its oversight. On this basis, we will press the amendment.

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