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- 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 many people are in that?
- 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)
Catherine Murphy: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I have four questions, so I am looking for quite succinct responses. I refer to the 20 cases per caseload at present. Is there sanction to go beyond that and what was it at its highest? What is the ratio of support staff per investigator?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Is there sanction to go towards ten?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: GSOC has not got sanction to go beyond the caseload of 20.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Okay. What is the ratio of support staff per investigator?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It is merely to get some sort of an idea.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We often get material in here and it is more like we are the public accountability committee rather than the Committee of Public Accounts. With the number of inadmissible complaints, I suspect that GSOC is maybe not completely understood by the public. Is there a public information campaign around that? It would strike me that if GSOC reduced the inadmissible cases, it may well be able to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: GSOC is aware of that. In relation to the protection disclosures, as I want to go back to that, where did the majority of protected disclosures come from? Did they come from the gardaí themselves?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Hume know the ratio?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I will now ask about the non-pay element of GSOC's budget. Obviously, the bulk of that goes on the accommodation. GSOC has accommodation in Dublin and Cork. It is leased accommodation. In the event of there being sanction for additional staffing, will that accommodation be sufficient? Is it future-proofed and is there a break clause in it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I want to go back to the types of admissible complaints. One of them is discourtesy. Presumably, that is the kind of thing that goes directly back to the Garda. Does GSOC then follow up to see that there is training to address some of the issues, or is that just something that is left exclusively to the Garda itself?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: On protected disclosures again, obviously when a case is closed and findings are made, you have to go back then, for example, when some issues have to be picked up by the Garda itself. What follow-through is there with regard to changes that would be made internally within the Garda? I do not understand where the relationship would be then in how it is picked up following the closure of a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I presume they share it with the Minister as well.