AGSI: Horgan Report was rushed and 'lacks clarity'

The Horgan Report may have been delayed by more than two years before its eventual publication yesterday, but the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors dismissed it as “rushed” and lacking clarity as to how to resolve issues affecting the force.

In the report its author, John Horgan, makes a number of key recommendations, including:

• That industrial relations should be ‘normalised’;
• The Garda Representative Association and AGSI should become trade unions;
• Garda management should be given responsibility for industrial relations;
• An Garda Síochána and representative associations should conclude a dispute resolution agreement;
• All should have access to protective employment law, including the right to avail of the processes of the Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court;
• All parties should agree to no strikes or other industrial action.