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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...does not fit somewhere else, they can send a letter to the Committee of Public Accounts. Sometimes it is more about public accountability than public accounts. In the context of understanding GSOC's role and the public understanding of the role, I see, for example, that 855 complaints were determined as inadmissible. In many cases that may well be people inappropriately directing...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

...that person for a public order situation. In those circumstances we have clear protocols around ensuring the court with jurisdiction over the matter has all information, whether it is sitting in GSOC or An Garda Síochána. We exchange information regularly to ensure we both know what stage we are at in an investigation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...and, as Deputy Murphy alluded to, involves a consideration of the length of time investigations take and the results that follow on from them. We cannot do that without reflecting on some of GSOC's previous investigations. The investigation I am a little familiar with is the one that occurred subsequent to the death of Shane O'Farrell. If I understand it correctly, there were two...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

...to groups or communities who may not know we exist or have the confidence or capacity to come to us. We are trying to collect equality data to make sure we are identifying equity of access to GSOC. We have some work to do but are identifying things we will do. One of those is interacting with advocacy organisations who have proximity to and trust with communities and can signpost them to us.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...the criminal investigations opened, how many of the 485 investigations opened in 2019 went to trial? Are there any such figures for the 572 in 2020? When I saw the figure of 572 last July after GSOC sent us that letter, I was really taken aback. The figure flattened off last year at 557 but given the fact that 557 criminal investigations and 752 disciplinary investigations were opened...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

..., DPP, who may or may not decide to prosecute. If that office decides to return the case to us having decided not to prosecute, because it is the Director of Public Prosecutions who prosecutes not GSOC, then we may make a decision to go on to investigate that as a discipline matter. That is part of the convoluted legislation under which we currently operate. That can-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

...within 16 to 20 weeks. SIOs are at superintendent level and are required to conduct investigations of matters that have been presented to them and to make determinations. They report back to GSOC on their findings, and the complainant then has an option to have that determination or the investigation reviewed by us. The Garda superintendent will then make a decision as to what sort of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Mr. Hugh Hume: I am not exactly sure, but my understanding is that a number of allegations were made at the start and they were being dealt with slightly differently. At that point, GSOC brought them all under one umbrella and conducted a criminal investigation in respect of 56 separate allegations that had been made. Those 56 allegations were investigated and a determination was made that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: On protected disclosures, does GSOC have a profile it could give us? I ask it to provide the committee a note on the number of protected disclosures. I assume some of them are closed at this stage. I am looking for a broad outline of what they are about. I suspect they are equally to do with culture within an organisation because sometimes if one can deal with a matter by raising it...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...Logan also. There are many moving parts in some of the scrutiny of this and it can be difficult to understand the pathway that we are following here. I want to ask a little bit more about GSOC’s perspective on the proposed legislation but before I do I want to understand the numbers a little bit more in 2019, 2020, and 2021. We saw a large increase in the number of queries...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

...were not being progressed as a result of that issue. These are only unsupervised investigations. No criminal investigations were passed to Garda investigations. This issue was dealt with solely within GSOC. At that time there were 285 unsupervised investigations and 109 supervised disciplinary investigations in the Garda Síochána. A total of 40 Garda superintendents...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

.... We believe it would be more appropriate that search warrants would be issued under judicial oversight rather than by a member of the commission. There is also a proposal in the Bill that GSOC would have the power to review its own decisions, and I believe that proposal should be reconsidered because it may prove vulnerable to challenge on the basis that an organisation should not be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Mr. Hugh Hume: Our case workers. When a member of the public contacts GSOC, he or she invariably interacts with our case work team. There are 35 members of staff who deal with a broad range of demands and people suffering trauma and hardship who come to us for assistance. They are an excellent bunch. The commission met with them the other day. They are a very engaged and caring bunch....

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...House. The Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, is a permanent witness to the committee. This morning we will engage with officials from the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, to examine its 2020 financial statements. The meeting will be suspended for an hour at 12.30 p.m. When we resume at 1.30 p.m., we will engage with the Policing Authority to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (7 Apr 2022)

Mr. Seamus McCarthy: GSOC was established under the Garda Síochána Act 2005. As members are aware, the main functions of the commission are to investigate complaints concerning Garda conduct and incidents where it appears that Garda conduct may have resulted in death or serious harm to a person. The commission can also investigate matters relating to Garda conduct when it is in...