Mr. John Twomey:

On 6 February there was an awareness of the issue in the GISC. Summonses are created centrally in the GISC, but they are also created at local level because it is not an automated system. It was only in April 2016 that a specific case came before a court. At that stage, it was evident that we had a bigger problem than we had thought originally - the NCT as a specific, sole issue. It was evaluated and examined and only at that stage was there was an awareness that it could apply to other offences where it had changed from a summons to an FCN over the course from 2006 on. There was a fix and an instruction was issued to withdraw summonses.