Mr. Martin Callinan:

In a number of these cases, the particular officers could account for the reasons tickets were cancelled, even though documentation was not available. When one looks at the totality of the very serious allegations made of corruption and malpractice - very serious criminal charges - no thread of evidence has been found to date and nobody has come forward to provide that type of evidence. Many allegations are being made but nobody has provided any evidence of corruption or malpractice. There is certainly evidence found in Assistant Commissioner O'Mahoney's report of people acting outside the process. As the Deputy knows, in three particular cases, 661 notices, the Assistant Commissioner had sufficient concerns to alert the Assistant Commissioner in charge of internal affairs that these matters needed to be inquired into through a disciplinary investigation. He was laying bare the facts as he saw them but he very clearly said he did not come across criminality, which is a very serious issue for us as everybody will appreciate.