Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

Yes, I did. I had written to the Policing Authority asked them in their deliberations and consideration of the matter would they consider perhaps handing the matter over to the Garda Inspectorate or some other competent body to look at it. The purpose of bringing in the internal audit - that was on the advice of our own audit committee - is to look at the audit that has been done and just to check the methodology and the processes, etc., that we used for that. Our audit committee has raised the question of whether this was an audit within the meaning of an auditor's audit or whether this was an examination. It was probably more of an examination and a review as opposed to a technical audit but, nevertheless, Deputy Commissioner Ó Cúaláin, instructed the head of internal audit to come in and have a look at the process that had been employed. It was always our preference to have somebody independently look at it and that is why I wrote to the Policing Authority.