Mr. John Devitt:

Yes. It is standard practice for any large organisation to offer its employees the opportunity to report concerns internally, to offer advice to employees and to ensure their concerns will be dealt with at as local a level as is both possible and necessary. We had suggested parallel channels be open to members of An Garda Síochána in order to allow them to report to Deputies, certain prescribed public bodies and GSOC in circumstances where they were of the view that the gravity of concern about a matter and the risk associated therewith warranted this.