The Policing Authority is to question An Garda Síochána about its continuing failure to publish a review into homicide figures at a public meeting next month, writes Aisling Kenny.
The review was originally due to be made available to the Policing Authority in June last year but has yet to be published.
In a statement, the Policing Authority said it had ongoing questions surrounding the classification of homicide figures.
It said information it had received from gardaí up to now has been "inconclusive".
Last September, the CSO suspended the publication of any further crime figures for a second time until a garda review into homicide cases was completed.
This review began after it was suspected that a number of cases of murder, manslaughter and violent deaths may have been misclassified.
The original review was for three years from 2013 to 2015. It found that 41 cases had been misclassified and gardaí decided to then extend it back as far 2003.
The Department of Justice said the CSO has indicated that it expects to recommence publication of crime statistics between April and June this year.
An Garda Síochána said there is an on-going quality review into the classification of homicides going back to 2003 and when it's complete they will inform all the relevant parties of the findings.
Labour TD Alan Kelly has called for the review to be published immediately.
He said: "I have deep deep concerns about how gardaí are treating and classifying homicides. We know there have been issues in relation to this in the past.
"I want to know that the investigations have been done and been completed and I want everything out in the open so we know homicides have been classified correctly in the past and also that the manner that it's been done by gardaí at the moment is correct".
Deputy Kelly says the Justice Committee has been given information on the issue and he called on Minister for Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan to make a statement on the matter:
The Policing Authority said the matter came its attention in April last year and since then it has received material from gardaí on the issue.
But it said that material was inconclusive and the Authority still has questions about homicide statistics.
It also said the Garda Commissioner would be questioned about the issue at a public meeting next month.
