{"id":383,"date":"2018-01-14T14:53:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T14:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/gsoc-must-get-funding-to-investigate-garda-whistleblower-allegations\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T14:53:36","slug":"gsoc-must-get-funding-to-investigate-garda-whistleblower-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/gsoc-must-get-funding-to-investigate-garda-whistleblower-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"GSOC must get funding to investigate Garda whistleblower allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy TD has backed the call by the Garda Sioch\u00e1na Ombudsman Commission for extra resources to investigate serious allegations made by garda whistleblowers.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Murphy said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unconscionable that a request more than a year ago by GSOC for 12 extra staff for its dedicated Protected Disclosures Unit has gone largely unmet. How is this unit expected to operate only on a part-time basis with a total of three staff members?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is disturbing to hear the Chairperson of GSOC, Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring, admit today that the commission had failed people who have come to it with protected disclosures due to a lack of staff and resources. How can we expect garda\u00ed to come forward with protected disclosures if they can\u2019t have full confidence that they will be listened to and their reports handled appropriately?<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Murphy added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a sinking sense of \u2018here we go again\u2019 with this failure to resource GSOC to deal with some of the deep cultural problems within our police force. We have already seen how the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement was starved of qualified staff during mission critical years when it was preparing its prosecution of Sean Fitzpatrick, which ended in a collapsed trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFar too often we see important oversight and investigatory bodies starved of resources. But the public always ends up paying the price one way or another. Over the last few decades around \u20ac500 million has been spent on tribunals and other inquiries. This is a key reason why the Social Democrats want to see a properly resourced and empowered independent Anti-Corruption Agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">14 January 2018<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy TD has backed the call by the Garda Sioch\u00e1na Ombudsman Commission for extra resources to investigate serious allegations made by garda whistleblowers. Deputy Murphy said: \u201cIt is unconscionable that a request more than a year ago by GSOC for 12 extra staff for its dedicated Protected Disclosures Unit has gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catherine-murphy","category-latest-news","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GSOC must get funding to investigate Garda whistleblower allegations - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/gsoc-must-get-funding-to-investigate-garda-whistleblower-allegations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GSOC must get funding to investigate Garda whistleblower allegations - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy TD has backed the call by the Garda Sioch\u00e1na Ombudsman Commission for extra resources to investigate serious allegations made by garda whistleblowers. 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