Seanad debates

Friday, 10 December 2004

Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Committee Stage (Resumed).

 

12:00 pm

Photo of Tony KettTony Kett (Fianna Fail)

I take a different view. The fact that people are coming from an investigative background enhances the ability of the commission to be effective. Such people will have had vast experience in these systems. As well as that, they will be under new guidance. The person that cracks the whip, in effect, will be driving them. I would be more worried, on my reading of the Bill, as to whether people will have an option to transfer if they do not want to. The Bill suggests to me that they are simply transferring and that it is not within their ambit to refuse, even if they want to move. I just wonder whether that is the position.

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