Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As a final question, I obviously had questions on intelligence, security and policing and whether functions should be separated or held together. I listened to the witnesses' responses with great interest. What is best international practice? I acknowledge there is no such thing as perfection, but perhaps a number of the witnesses will draw attention to what they perceive as being good extant current international practice.