Mr. Martin Callinan:

I think it is important, Chairman, to make the point that we have very clear guidelines on rules and regulations in relation to the running of informants. The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission is entitled to come in and investigate any cases where it believes there is a breach of those guidelines. That is how the Deputy will find out if matters are not the way they should be. We must be fair here. There is a judicial report which states that substantially - to be fair to the High Court judge who has looked at this, that is as much as he can do - the regulations are being complied with. One will never ever get a system that is entirely bullet proof and I think that is a very reasonable point. I cannot, Deputy, with the greatest of respect, start commenting about an individual who may or may not have been an informant within An Garda Síochána.