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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...from Accounting Officers or Ministers and follow up to meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts. No. 2241B is from Judge Rory MacCabe of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, dated 16 November 2023. This item provides further information requested by the committee about an investigation. I propose that we note and publish this item of correspondence. Is that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: ...a couple of years. Attention has been drawn again to the resourcing issue here. There was an allegation about the use of force and cases went to the ombudsman. We need to see issues not going to GSOC, if it is not appropriate for them to go there or if the complaint relates to something that training could alleviate. I do not have a problem with the Policing Authority coming up with a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: We have had complaints over the weekend from gardaí and their representative bodies saying that investigations about complaints lodged with GSOC about individual gardaí can take years. They outline the matter in stark terms. Judge Rory MacCabe stated that a further issue was that of resourcing. He stated: "The committee will – at the risk of my rehearsing the broken record...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: Unfortunately. Bringing GSOC before the committee at the same time as the Department would be useful. There may be a case for inviting An Garda Síochána. Perhaps An Garda Síochána and GSOC could appear on one day. That would be useful.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)

Catherine Murphy: .... That goes for members of the Garda as much as anybody else. In the interim, we should write to the Department of Justice and express our serious concerns about the resourcing issue concerning GSOC and the length of time it takes to deal with cases as a consequence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: I propose adding a discussion with either the Department or the Garda to our work programme for the date we have. We need to have the Garda Accounting Officer and GSOC representatives in on the same day.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...for the new year has been circulated to members. I will list the ones that have been suggested by members. First is the Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána. I suggest we add GSOC. We can discuss how to sequence it, but that body needs to be in the frame. Then there is the Department of Defence, the Department of Transport, the National Transport Authority, the...