Garda review will not be ready before Easter

The Government’s 12-18-month root and branch review of the gardaí will not be finalised until after Easter because further consultation with opposition parties is still needed.

Photo credit: Donal Smyth, Paul Wallace, President Antoinette Cunningham, Rory Brennan, and John Jacob, all executive members of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, at its conference in Killarney yesterday. Picture: Don MacMonagle

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald will confirm the situation at the Cabinet’s weekly meeting today, during which ministers will be asked to sign off on the interim report into the mother and baby homes scandal before it is published this afternoon and separate plans for a new flood relocation programme.