Commissioner Simon O'Brien:

Thank you, Chairman. I will pick up on and echo some of the comments made by committee members. We too as a commission have the utmost respect for the work of the men and women in the Garda Síochána. We operate in a spirit of co-operation at the senior levels and at ground level. At this point, however, we feel we must make our views public. If we get the co-operation we ask for today we believe that we will become more efficient. The time that is taken for superintendents up and down the country to complete complaints forms when things are getting old is a very inefficient use of their and our time. If we get the compliance that we so need from today's meeting we will be able to speak in the past tense about these issues. We hope that we can move past this because it is very important that we get our way on some of these issues. I will hand over to Commissioners Carmel Foley and Kieran Fitzgerald to deal with the last points in the last question.