Mr. Martin Callinan:

Absolutely. The Deputy is right.

My position is very clear. Anyone who makes any report of wrongdoing to me, I will deal with it very seriously. I am sure I speak for my officers beside me and elsewhere when I say that is the case. We will not be isolating anyone who makes a complaint of wrongdoing against another member of the force. We have many examples within the disciplinary process where we deal with people who transgressed every year. We are certainly not perfect, nor would I ever profess to come before this committee and say so. We have difficult problems. As one can imagine, in a force of over 13,000, dealing with such complex issues, of course we will have difficulties. However, the Deputy should be very clear that, from my perspective, as Commissioner of An Garda Síochána, I will not allow anyone reporting wrongdoing to be bullied, harassed, intimidated or whatever adverb or adjective the Deputy chooses to use. That will not happen on my watch. There is a mechanism and procedure for reporting wrongdoing which should not be going off to a third party with a whole raft of serious allegations, criminal and otherwise, and producing them elsewhere.