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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: I take it that Dr. Singh did have concerns about some of the answers at that meeting from Garda senior management to the Policing Authority?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: I know, but that is part of the reason Dr. Singh had concerns?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: I had a look at the report yesterday because it was available on the Internet. Does Dr. Singh agree that the representation conveyed to the Policing Authority was that the analysis and investigation sections had completed their analysis and the report and all that remained was the implementation of a couple of recommendations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: Does Dr. Singh agree that at the end of that meeting the Policing Authority was left with the impression that it was a report that had been approved by the Garda in general?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: Dr. Singh did that subsequently.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: When did Dr. Singh see the report for the first time? I am referring to the report referred to at the meeting of the Policing Authority on 27 April.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: What were Dr. Singh's views when he saw the report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: When Dr. Singh received the report some weeks after 27 April, was he being asked, in respect of the analysis unit, to sign off on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: What was Dr. Singh's view of the report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: Did Dr. Singh communicate to senior Garda management his inability to sign off on the report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: There was a subsequent meeting of the Policing Authority on 29 June 2017 which Dr. Singh attended. Again, the homicide review was raised. In fairness to Dr. Singh, it was in the context of issues related to dangerous driving causing death. However, I think he did say the database had been rectified. In that reference was he trying to indicate that the homicide review issue had been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: On 29 June the Policing Authority was informed that the report was close to conclusion. Was Dr. Singh's unit involved with the report at that stage? If so, who in Dr. Singh's unit was dealing with it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: I will move on quickly because I am conscious other colleagues want to come in. There was a further meeting of the Policing Authority on 28 September 2017, prior to which a report had been sent to the authority. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: Had Dr. Singh's unit signed off on that report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: Was the signing off in respect of the 12 missed classifications and the 41 cases? The report had been signed off on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: For the purposes of clarity, at that meeting the chairwoman of the Policing Authority asked for confirmation that the report had been signed off on by the analysis side and the investigation side. Is that correct? It was signed off on by both sides?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: I know, but confirmation was given to the chairwoman of the Policing Authority that the cases investigated were all Article 2 compliant. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: That obviously concerns the report that was sent to the committee on the misclassifications. On homicides between 2003 and 2017, can Dr. Singh assure the committee that they have all been investigated and are deemed to be in compliance with Article 2?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Homicide Statistics: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)
Jim O'Callaghan: Yes. Did Dr. Singh see the investigation files for the purposes of the report sent to the Policing Authority prior to the meeting held in September?