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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...kind of touched on the issue, of the Dublin riots. What it brought to the fore was a feeling within An Garda Síochána that gardaí very much were looking over their shoulders at the menace that GSOC might be to them having a strong response to a very difficult set of circumstances. This is my first question. Did GSOC receive any complaints with regard to the date that is...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

...came back, and people were asked about the use of force specifically, less than 5% of all of those people reported that they had a lack of confidence in use of force. It was not any reference to GSOC. It was a confidence issue but it was less than 5%. That is the report from Paul Cleary, the assistant commissioner.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: It will not come as much of a shock to anyone watching or some people here that I have a deep concern about GSOC. I will preface my remarks by saying that the structures do not help and hamstring some of GSOC's work. I have a concern about the future of policing report and the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act because what is recommended here is not what is in here but a...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...and three months for the issue with the Garda training college, where the report came from this committee, to be sent to the DPP? I would like a quick answer as I am caught for time. Second, will GSOC clarify whether the referral to the DPP is about our report and its contents and the issue with European funds, or is it just one of them?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

...talk to some of that. The Deputy has seen some of the letters going back to Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring, so I do not propose to regurgitate themper se. However, it is important to state that for GSOC at the time this was a very complex and unique investigation. More than 7,600 documents were gathered as part of this investigation into very technical issues. It was something that was...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Mr. Hugh Hume: European funds issues are definitely covered. They are away. The second issue we investigated - that was opened by GSOC - related to the movement of money from Templemore to sports clubs. That was the second issue-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...floor. What has been going on here is deeply concerning. A number of cases have been brought forward and have been dropped and there other cases that obviously are not going to be referred to. Why is GSOC not, in the public interest, investigating what happened here? Why is it not investigating the investigators and investigating why these cases took so long? People's lives were...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: But GSOC can tell him he is going to be charged.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...stand out from that Committee of Public Accounts and that is one of them. It took 12 weeks for the committee to write its report and then took six years and three months to send the results of the GSOC investigation, which is a public interest investigation, to the DPP. We have just heard it is part of what was raised here. Do the witnesses agree the public interest is not served by...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...16 November. It tells us a little bit of something that the witnesses might confirm. I have often spoken of the lack of resources available and acknowledged that has an impact on the ability of GSOC to do its work. Mr. Justice MacCabe referred to the complexity of the investigation and suggested there was not great co-operation between OLAF and GSOC and he had no control over that....

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: When it came to it, he was interviewed for just one hour by GSOC, yet he had a lot of correspondence. When someone is there who clearly has knowledge and could have assisted, why was that assistance not availed of? He made it clear he was available to provide further information. This might give us an insight into the workings between the gardaí, the Commissioner and GSOC. Will the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Mr. Hugh Hume: I will talk about the first part first. For clarity, a new member of An Garda Síochána was not put in to review the file. It was a member of GSOC who took over when the gardaí left GSOC. It was our senior investigating officer from GSOC who conducted a review and took the matter forward, so it is not like a new member of An Garda Síochána came in.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: As regards the Garda Commissioner and the deployment or secondment of gardaí, GSOC makes a request. Is that request usually acceded to? Is it always acceded to? Is there friction there? What is the relationship?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Obviously, the whole idea was that GSOC was set up so as there would be an independent investigation.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I want to move on to protected disclosures. At the end of 2022, after some disclosures were closed, GSOC still had 53 disclosures on hand. What is the number it has on hand at the moment that are still open?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Does GSOC categorise those? Obviously, I am not pursuing details - I understand the legislation on this - but do they fall into particular categories, and whom do they come from?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: How does GSOC categorise them?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Does GSOC categorise what is alleged?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: In respect of complaints previously received, has there been any guidance issued to gardaí where GSOC would have come across scenarios where an issue could have been handled better? Has it arisen previously?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...internally in relation to theft or fraud. It is approximately 1%. Are there many complaints currently pending where there is an issue of misappropriation of funds within the Garda force? Is GSOC saying there is no case or is it saying-----