Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald to study GSOC call for new legal power

Tánaiste and Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald will “study in detail” calls from the Garda Ombudsman to give it the legal right to seek court orders directing the Garda commissioner to hand over documents.

GSOC chair Judge Mary Ellen Ring told the Oireachtas justice committee on Wednesday that, despite progress in handing over information, there is “a lot of room for improvement”.

She said the attitude of Garda HQ to its requests for information or documentation was that “we get it when we get it”.