Mr. Mark Toland:

The Policing Authority could be the final piece in the jigsaw in terms of oversight. I am very clear about our role and I think the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission is very clear about its role. We are working very closely with the Policing Authority. It has expertise in a significant number of areas. It has a very senior ex-police officer on that committee. We presented the Changing Policing in Ireland report and the crime report to it. It has now started to call us back as it works through the chapters to discuss exactly what we meant. I am very confident that it will hold the Commissioner to account for the implementing of these recommendations. It has done it publicly already. We have already started to see the publication of community confidence statistics by the Policing Authority asking the question: when will they be published? I am very hopeful that it will fill a gap in terms of oversight.