Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Finn:

To put the examination of the southern region in context, it did not start out as an audit of breath testing, unlike what I am doing now. It started out as a review of all of our data, PULSE systems and how we managed traffic data. The working group just happened to pick the southern region as an example. Roll on to where we are today and we are undertaking the national audit because we discovered discrepancies. The working group highlighted that there was a problem. In the middle of June last year, we decided that we needed to examine the issue across the organisation to determine how large its scale was. The traffic section, which is where I am, sent out a series of questions on all of that-----

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