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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Would that be with the Garda Commissioner? Would the Commissioner or the assistant commissioner be present at those meetings?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: In terms of the timeline for closing complaints, most people will accept that some complaints will take a lot of time to conclude, for various reasons. However, 7% have been going on for three years and nine cases have been ongoing for four to five years. That seems like an awfully long time. Are there cases that have been going on for more than five years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: How many?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: There are four cases in that category. Are they serious in nature?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: What are the main reasons?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Of those four cases, would the main reason for the delay be that they are pending the outcome of court cases?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Does that tend to be the biggest issue generally?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The new Bill changes that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That should deal with those real issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That concludes the questioning by the committee and the evidence of the witnesses. I thank the staff of GSOC and Ms Kennelly from the Department of Justice for the work they did in preparing for today's meeting and for the information they supplied to the committee. I also thank the staff of the Comptroller and Auditor General's office and the Comptroller and Auditor General himself for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The public business before us this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. The first item is the minutes of our meeting of 1 February 2024, which have been circulated to Members. Do Members wish to raise any matters relating to the minutes? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the minutes will be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Do any members wish to come in on the accounts and financial statements?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Do any other members wish to come in on that? No. Is the listing of accounts and financial statements agreed? Agreed. These will be published as part of our minutes. I will move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and decisions...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: That comes under the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. It would not be the Department of Justice.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: Given what is happening, I suggest we bring in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth separately to address some of that. We have had the Secretary General of that Department, Mr. Kevin McCarthy, and his team in a couple of times. We need to bring them in again. The Deputy's query is specific to the Department of Justice around how the International...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is two separate Departments. I suggest that we add them to the list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: The other one we agreed to do is the University of Limerick. I ask that this would be added to the list. Some issues of interest relating to UL that are surfacing. We agreed last week to bring them in on that . We will add UL. We agreed on UL. Is it agreed that we would also add the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a further meeting? Yes. We...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: If the accounts are not cleared, then we cannot we bring them before us.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2024)
Brian Stanley: It was the intention that there would be a crossover. There is a commonality between those three. We set them out before Christmas in that order. We hoped to have them one week after another. Actually, the initial proposal was to have GSOC in at the same time as An Garda Síochána, but that cannot happen for obvious reasons.