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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...operate to best effect, which gives food for thought. Second, there are two elements to the commission’s proposals on external independent oversight. It proposes a reformed independent complaints body that would supersede the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and a new independent oversight body to be named the policing and community safety oversight commission...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...of standards, and all that will continue. I acknowledge there was a lack of clarity on the part of some of the structures between the authority, on the one hand, and the inspectorate and GSOC on the other. In terms of GSOC, what we see in the report is along the lines of what many Deputies were seeking, namely, changes for GSOC and a greater measure of independence, and this is in tandem...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I have already dealt in her absence with all of the issues raised by Deputy Daly. I intend to bring forward legislative proposals on the independence and greater authority of GSOC. I acknowledge that GSOC is recruiting extra staff and expertise to allow it to deal adequately with its responsibilities and obligations in law. I expect to have the programme of legislative change on foot of...