Ms Josephine Feehily:

I will first answer the question on the number of staff. We have 13. Everybody is doing everything. That is what happens in a start-up and what I mentioned. All of the issues with a start-up arise. However, we have specified boundary issues in our governance framework, of which we are very mindful. In fact, my figure was wrong in that a 14th member joined us recently. That is helping us to reorganise our senior team to have more balance.

We have also established our own audit committee and invited external people to join it. They are not members of the authority. One of the jobs I have asked them to do involves taking a good look at our governance, reviewing our performance and devising a methodology to review it. When I use the words "the authority", I mean the authority members, the nine of us. It is our job to review the performance of Ms Hall and her team.

I will certainly feed into the work the comments made today. It is a matter of which we are mindful. We documented very early on the governance structures and the division of functions. We are drafting a relationship agreement with the Garda that will tease out some of these issues further. We have our own governance framework. We have just published a relationship agreement with the Department of Justice and Equality and will produce one between us and the Garda in order to underline the need to be as helpful as we can. We have a shared objective. All actors in the space - GSOC, the Garda Inspectorate, the Policing Authority, the Garda Commissioner and the Minister - have a shared ambition, namely, for there to be an excellent policing service. There is no question about this and it is important that we do not lose sight of it while we are all dividing ourselves into our silos.

For the information of the Chairman, the word "service" has actually been contained in the Act since 2005, but it is really difficult to get it into the vernacular. If I slip occasionally, I apologise, but I do try to use the word.