Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

On 6 February 2016, a member of An Garda Síochána said it had come to his attention that the Garda Information Services Centre was continuing to issue summonses for NCT offences which should have been dealt with by way of a fixed charge notice. The Garda Information Services Centre stopped this procedure but outside the centre and across the system, such as in individual districts, it was still possible for people to issue summonses by generating them on the computer. That is why we decided to look further than the Garda Information Services Centre and at offences other than NCT offences.