Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

I have no specific information at this point about anything but when we are identifying where we are right and where we are wrong, we are identifying bad practice but we are also identifying good practice and I will give some examples of good practice. When we started looking at how victims were being treated, we looked at areas of good practice. We were able to pick them out and implement them nationally but putting a standard operating procedure in that supports that practice to make sure we have consistency nationally. We looked at our protective services bureau, for example, and we will be able to roll those out in the next few weeks.

I do not know what is coming down the tracks but we have systems, and we are putting structures in place, that make sure we identify issues, deal with them and put them right. If we identify them, we will do what we did in this case and make everybody aware of it, including the Department, the Policing Authority, the audit committee, this committee and the public. A positive thing always comes out of a negative. One of the positive things that has come out of this discovery relates to young members around the country whom the Senator mentioned. In January this year, we launched a code of ethics with the Policing Authority and it is important that every member of An Garda Síochána understands and realises that ethics is about doing the right thing when no one is watching. If I am the garda who has to enter the figures, I have to understand their importance to traffic enforcement and to the reputation and credibility not just of An Garda Síochána but, most important, to the trust and confidence every member of the public has in the force. Since I became Commissioner, I have said trust and confidence is built one encounter at a time no matter who you are in An Garda Síochána. This is an opportunity for us to drive that home to every member. We spoke to our chief superintendents yesterday who said that since last Thursday, we have been inundated by individual gardaí coming forward and saying, "We realise the importance of this". There is a huge lesson in this for everybody.

There is no question we will deal with how this happened and that is what Assistant Commissioner O'Sullivan is doing but this helps us hugely in shifting the culture.