Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

I would not like to suggest in any way that either my short statement, because I was asked to make a short one, or the way we presented something showed contempt for the committee, quite the opposite. We came in here to try to be open, frank and honest. I would not like anyone to believe we are being contemptuous in any way whatsoever, quite the opposite.

As the Senator says, sometimes when one turns over a stone one finds nothing and that is very good but sometimes one finds a little pearl. We have found good practice. The Deputy Commissioner has outlined precisely what he is doing in respect of the reviews that are ongoing on the data quality committee. I was not raising a red flag but saying, not in a contemptuous way at all, that the reality is that as we go through the type of really deep organisational, administrative overhaul we are going through we might find something. Have I anything at the moment? No I do not. We will continue and when we do find something we will identify, address it and make it known to the people who need to know, such as the Policing Authority, the Department, this committee and the public. That is what we will continue to do because that is important to us.

We can go through the detail of the sequencing of the correspondence with the Department again. The Deputy Commissioner can go through the dates and what we did and told, and the Assistant Commissioner can give the dates of when we discovered this precisely. We are happy to go through that with the committee.