Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Commissioner talks about cultural change. There was much talk about cultural change when the former Commissioner, Martin Callinan, and the former Minister, Alan Shatter, went, but many people in the Commissioner's organisation, and we communicate with many of them, would argue that not only has the culture not changed but, if anything, it has deteriorated. What does the Commissioner say to the comments many would have put to us that she has promoted many people about whom complaints have been made, that she promoted her husband and her bridesmaid, and that she surrounded herself with her supporters rather than concentrating on promoting quality personnel? When the PSNI was formed, the Patten report recommended that if it was serious and wanted to change the culture in terms of how policing was done in Northern Ireland, it would have to get rid of the existing hierarchy. Since the Commissioner replaced the former Commissioner Callinan, there has not been a serious change to the hierarchy. Processes are much as they were. What does the Commissioner think of that?