Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Mr. John Twomey:

I will try to answer that question. We initially wrote to the Department in June of that year in respect of the NCT offence. We had to review all of our data back to 2016 after we learned that an offence that should have been dealt with by fixed charge notice had been dealt with by summons. The person had an offence to answer to but the procedure used was incorrect. We knew from looking at that data or we certainly questioned whether this could have applied to other issues, given that it had applied to NCT data. All other offences shifted from summonses to fixed charge notices over a number of years from 2006 up to the current date.

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