Mr. Martin Callinan:

All I can point out, Deputy, with the greatest of respect, is that I expect everybody who makes those decisions to make them for the right reasons - in the first instance, that the person making the petition has a bona fide reason and that the professional judgment of the officer making the decision is balanced and fair. That is all I can ask of the members of the force.

Whether the petitioner is a brother, sister, mother or father of the member of the force should not really come into it. It is either right or wrong.