Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

I will. Again, I will not speak about any individuals but I want to be very clear about something. This is a statement of facts. When I took over as acting interim Commissioner and applied for the job of Garda Commissioner in 2014, the job description included delivering on the Government reform programme that was necessary for An Garda Síochána but no one told us what that reform consisted of. Let me be crystal clear about the demonstrable track record that is there to prove what we did, albeit with, as I say, a very depleted management team. We took not only the 11 Garda Inspectorate reports but the 43 reports that were completed on An Garda Síochána over the previous ten years. I was asked about those ten years. The 43 reports contained no less than 1,400 recommendations and a significant number of those were from the Garda Inspectorate. For the first time ever in the history of the State and the history of An Garda Síochána, we set about developing a comprehensive and coherent reform programme and last June we launched the programme. The last time I attended the committee, we shared that document with it. However, we did not just launch a glossy document. We set out a roadmap of precisely what we were going to do over the next five to seven years. In that intervening period, we set about ensuring we influenced Government and got its commitment in terms of people and human resources, technology and funding needed to make it happen. We started making that happen but what really made a difference to communities throughout the country were victim service offices, our protective services bureau, Operation Thor-----