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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Brian Stanley: Thank you, we will do that. No. 642B from Ms Mary Ellen Ring, Chair of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, dated 10 June 202, is a response to our request for further information in relation to the workload and resourcing of GSOC. It is clear from the correspondence that GSOC’s workload is increasing but there has not been a corresponding increase in personnel....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: First, it seems strange that GSOC has indicated it furnished its annual report to the Minister on 31 March and that the Minister, for one reason or another, has not yet decided to publish it. GSOC outlined the main aspects of the report in its correspondence, which is welcome, but it would be useful for the committee to write to the Department seeking clarification on when GSOC's annual...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...to the size of a regional constabulary in Britain, with the Manchester policing service or similar bodies being comparable to it. I will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General about inviting GSOC. My opinion is that it is open to us to bring it in but Mr. McCarthy might be able to outline the possibilities better.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Mr. Seamus McCarthy: I carry out the audit of the financial statements of GSOC so they are available to be called by the committee. I do not have detail of where we are with the 2020 audit but I can find that and come back to the secretariat with it. That might be helpful in relation to the timing.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Matt Carthy: ...it would be useful if the Comptroller and Auditor General's office could indicate when the 2020 financial statements will have been audited. If it is any time soon then I suggest that we include GSOC on the committee's work plan shortly after that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2021)

Brian Stanley: Given the figures GSOC has supplied, I can see how it is overworked if it has only 40 investigators and it is dealing with that number of cases in any given year, namely, 572 criminal investigations and 150 disciplinary cases. That is a very substantial number. We will await the clarification from Mr. McCarthy on the 2020 audit and make a decision on it then. Is that agreed? Agreed. ...