The Minister for Justice said the garda's disciplinary process under which a garda who gave a farmer in a rural area the loan of a bicycle during the pandemic took too long to conclude.The Garda Commissioner said this morning that all the information in relation to the case was not in the public domain but that no further action is to be taken against the garda.
"We only received yesterday the report from the panel chair, and that's an important piece of information"."I am reluctant to engage in the detail of this because a lot of detail is not in the public domain," he said. She said that under the forthcoming Policing and Security Bill she hoped there would be a more efficient and effective system with new discipline and conduct regulations in the next few months.