Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In fairness it took a few years to do it, but what the assistant commissioner is saying is that is what is on the Garda system. How can we take solace from that? Will Mr. Finn comment on the fact that a former Garda made internal reports that suggested that it was an instruction by management. There is a difference, as the assistant commissioner knows, when a checkpoint is set up, management instruct and set a target for each station as to how many checkpoints should be carried out by that station and that district. Obviously events happen unexpectedly and the target cannot be the scheduled checkpoints, and checkpoints are often cancelled.

We are led to believe that management issued an instruction to say that the number of checkpoints scheduled, rather than the number of checkpoints actually carried out, should be recorded.