Committee to call meeting with chair of Garda body

The Oireachtas Justice Committee plans to question the chairperson-designate of the new Policing Authority in the coming weeks.

And the committee expects to give its response on legislative provisions governing the authority, contained in the Garda Siochána Bill 2014, to Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald before the Christmas break.

Committee chairman David Stanton said that he intended to hold a session with Josephine Feehily, the new authority chairperson, before the Dáil breaks on December 19. “She will have an engagement with us, I would expect, before Christmas,” he said. “If not, it would be very soon thereafter, prior to her appointment.”