An Garda Síochána
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-22
============================================================

James Browne (FF), Wexford

I appreciate where the Deputy is coming from. I often hear from the local authority in the area where I live that somebody is being vetted, but it is not Garda vetting as such. Local authorities are using that as a generic term rather than the technical term under the legislation, when what they have done is contact the local superintendent for a particular request relating to a person who has applied for social housing. As I said, I will raise the matter with the Commissioner to see whether there is a way to streamline the process more for requests from local authorities to An Garda Síochána in respect of particular persons.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2024-02-22/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:52:42+00:00
Sitting date: 2024-02-22