Mr. Mark Toland:

I think so. I think they see them as challenging. Numerically, there is a significant challenge.

The Commissioner has agreed to move to a divisional model. The reason I keep mentioning that is it is the biggest change since the Garda Síochána came into existence. It is a significant structural change.

They accepted the 212 recommendations on crime and now they have the challenge of trying to deliver them. The new protective services bureaux investigating sexual assaults is something that we recommended in 2012, and is now coming on-stream. There is a significant change.

The language used by the Commissioner is different. It is about implementation. It is about trying to get things done, but there is an enormous number of previous recommendations that must now be implemented. That is a challenge but the commitment is there.

The gardaí we engage at operational level are passionate about what they do. The gardaí themselves, their own staff, want to see this change happening. The public wants to see the change. The challenge for them is showing their own staff they are going to change and they need to do that by delivering some of the pieces in the plan as quickly as possible, not slowly.