Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish the Commissioner and her team a good morning. I would like to begin by summing up these issues and events as sloppy, appalling and an unprofessional catastrophe. I think this will have long lasting effects on Garda morale and public trust. I have listened carefully to the Commissioner's remarks on a number of specific questions and am minded to recall her summing up of Deputy Chambers's examples of his views and others on this matter with the term "unprofessional". She used that term herself. Notwithstanding the direction of the Chairman, in terms of morale and public faith in the management team or individual members of An Garda Síochána or both at this point, my first question is whether the Commissioner accepts that the public and Members of these Houses are greatly concerned about the current direction of An Garda Síochána, notwithstanding the document that is under her left elbow. I recall going through that document with the committee. Would she accept that point?