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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...matters: appropriation accounts 2022; Vote 21 - Prisons; and Vote 24 - Justice. The committee has flagged a number of issues, such as the resourcing of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, and the International Protection Office, as areas of interest. We are joined by the following officials from the Department of Justice: Ms Oonagh McPhillips, Secretary General;...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

...with the inspection functions carried out by the Garda Inspectorate. A new Garda board is designed to strengthen corporate governance. As the committee is aware, a new complaints body, Fiosrú, will be established to replace the existing GSOC. The Act sets out comprehensive reform of the processes for handling complaints and investigations into allegations of wrongdoing by Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Officials from GSOC appeared before us a couple of weeks ago. They told us that, in other jurisdictions, the general caseload is ten cases per investigator and GSOC now has 20 cases per investigator, which is considerably lower than the much higher caseload before this. Obviously there has been an increase in the budget and staffing for GSOC, and we went through that with them. Is there...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

...case for budget 2024 and it will inform the consequential budgets as well. The increase for this year was very substantial as they got a 17% increase, from 2023 to 2024. From 2022 to 2023, GSOC got a 25% increase in its budget. That is very substantial compared with the rest of the sector. I would expect that to continue as well.