Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The point Charleton seemed to stress above all others in his recommendations is that structures alone are not enough. The question I put to the Minister was on how his report is going to impact the changes in our policing service. The Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland has put forward a number of ideas which are quite controversial. Key among the controversial ones is the emphasis on structures, in particular, the moving away from the system that we were in the process of developing of external oversight initiated through the vehicle of the Policing Authority, albeit a vehicle which was not given sufficient legislative powers to really play that accountability role accurately, and replacing that with an internal governance body, which actually brings more power back internally inside An Garda Síochána. Surely, based on the bits of the Charleton report the Minister has read, he must see that model is in conflict with what Mr. Justice Charleton said that oversight, scrutiny and accountability is at the heart of what we need to get at.

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