Mr. Martin Callinan:

I suppose in terms of the offences that were sent for disciplinary investigation, one would obviously be digging down and going out to look at, for instance, areas where there might be some sort of activity other than what appears to be in front of one's nose. If there is no documentation, it creates its own problem. These are, however, a small number of cases, particularly the ones which involved acting within policy but outside of the process. To put this in context, if I am a superintendent in Santry and I cancel a ticket in Dalkey, perhaps for all the right reasons, with proper justification and being authorised at a particular rank to do so, the proper procedure in that instance would be to forward the documentation, if one was satisfied that there was justification for cancelling the ticket, to the superintendent of the area in which the offence occurred and let him or her make the decision. That is what should have happened and did not happen in a certain number of cases. That is the distinction I am drawing between acting outside of the policy versus outside of the process. That happened in a number of cases. However, where the disciplinary issues arise, these are matters that were deemed to be too serious and they certainly involved a lack of documentation and an audit trail.