Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Commissioner and her colleagues for coming in this morning. I acknowledge the apology she has given regarding the specific incidents we are talking about here and the questions that have arisen.

I would like to ask the Commissioner if she thinks she should apologise for the manner and the way in which she and her senior management team have conducted themselves and the investigation or audit into this process. Before the Commissioner answers me, I want to put a couple of questions and points to her. Yes, we are talking quite big numbers, it is a discrepancy of approximately 1 million and we are talking about a lot of mandatory tests, but she commands a force, and by her own statements, she has been conducting her own investigation that started approximately in 2014. She has come in today, and she has said that the Garda management has still not completed the audit. Does she think that is acceptable?

I would be very interested to know if the Commissioner could give me a logistical breakdown on how many people have been deployed to carry out this work, from the initial audit in the southern region to date. That speaks volumes to how seriously she is taking this. If she does not want to apologise for it, can she explain to any reasonable person why, when it came to her attention in 2014, she is still not able to give complete information to us here today at the end of March 2017?