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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: It is just that the information was the same in April 2017 as it is now. It is unfortunate that the Deputy Commissioner is not here himself. I will not go further into that. Deputy Ó Laoghaire asked how the Garda started this. The acting Commissioner seemed to suggest that the Garda thought of it itself; that this came out in 2016 just because-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: Why was that happening in July 2016 when the issues had been flagged with the Garda by the Garda Inspectorate investigation in 2014 which highlighted serious shortcomings in the manner in which gardaí handled domestic abuse cases and related matters?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: One of the recommendations of the 2014 report was for the Garda to conduct an analysis of domestic related murders to inform Garda policy on harm reduction. Was that done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: When was that done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: When exactly was that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: The acting Commissioner is saying it was done in advance of July 2016 when this started.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: Was that in advance of this latest July 2016 initiative?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: I am trying to join the pieces here because we are talking about classification and misclassification of homicide in a domestic situation. There are linked areas around that which I want to feed into. The 2014 report suggested that all crimes of domestic violence and incidents of dispute should be recorded on PULSE irrespective of the willingness of a victim to make a complaint. When was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: I am asking whether the acting Commissioner can assure the committee and the public that there is no hint that the classification of a domestic homicide as a less serious crime was motivated by a desire to cover tracks because of missed opportunities where earlier signs of domestic abuse were not spotted. Was a final domestic homicide not classified as such to cover up for that? Can the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: Regardless of whether a person stands over a complaint later, are all incidents put on the system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: Does Mr. Finn believe the cultural problems, which are not unique to the Irish police service, are being tackled? I refer to the lack of seriousness in some instances where the view taken in cases of domestic violence and sexual assault is summarised by the attitude that it is a personal matter, time consuming and problematic and that people will sort it out between themselves. I was a bit...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: The problem is that saying it is one thing, but doing it is another. Mr. Finn mentioned 1 million breath tests but I would say the 60 to 80 homicides each year are not on the same level as 1 million breath tests so those cases should be capable of being classified and analysed appropriately. What strikes me as odd, and I will raise some points on the internal review, is that while the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: They were not given the case files.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: Dr. Singh stated that in November 2016 he raised the issue of the files, stating he needed to look at the files.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: It was in November 2016. The people who Mr. Finn had asked to conduct a comprehensive analysis in July came to him in November, stating that they had looked at the pathology files and at the PULSE records that they could really evaluate anything unless they looked at the full files.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: Did I mishear that? Did Mr. Finn say the people he had asked to conduct the comprehensive review told the Garda in November that they could only do so much without access to the full case files. Did I mishear that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: Does Dr. Singh think that was the response to his request, that his team could only do so much? I understand Dr. Singh did not specifically ask for the full case files, and that what actually happened was that it was decided to set up a joint body where the two sides, the analysts and gardaí, would look at all the files and examine them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: Did Dr. Singh and his team get access to all the files as part of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: How would that be considered a joint team? I would not call that a joint team.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Clare Daly: I would dispute that what Mr. Finn has described is a joint team. Mr. Finn told us that the analysts were asked to conduct a comprehensive analysis, so they started to do that and in November 2016 they said they could not take this any further without the case files. As Mr. Finn said, they set up a joint committee to look at the full files but it is not a joint committee; it is the Garda...