Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

In that case I will take a different path with this. Is the Taoiseach aware that correspondence sent by the chairperson of GSOC to the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL, dated 22 January refers to the challenge faced by an oversight body with fewer than 40 investigators in dealing with a Garda service of approximately 15,000 members? The under-resourcing of GSOC and the glacial pace of the Nkencho investigation raised the spectre that the murder of a gangland boss might be investigated more quickly now than the killing of a young man by a Garda officer. Does the Taoiseach believe that this is an acceptable state of affairs? Will he agree that an independent public inquiry rather than an under-resourced GSOC investigation is the way to go with this case?

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