Mr. Ronan Brady:

I have never met a journalist who was positive about the Garda press office. It is seen universally by colleagues who talk to me as a problem, as a body set up in order to prevent information being distributed. I have never dealt with it but my students have and they have come back with basically an extremely negative experience. There should be greater contact between members of the Garda and the media, but not centralised. It cannot be centralised in the way the Garda press office is. It does not happen elsewhere, as far as I know.