Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When the Commissioner appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality I asked her if she had full confidence in statistics in light of the anomalies highlighted by the CSO and the Garda Inspectorate. She said she was confident that the improvements had been put in place. Does she want to qualify those remarks?

I come back to the question as to why this has occurred. The Commissioner talked about turning over stones; I think we need to look at moving the boulder and seeing what lies beneath it. Beneath stones there will be stones. We can get into philosophical analogies. I think it goes deeper than unwinding the exact timeline. If the Commissioner cannot answer this question today I ask her to reply to the committee secretariat. During the 2006 to 2009 period, who approved the bonus system for each individual senior garda? What were the specific criteria? Were there any linkages with traffic data?

Assistant Commissioner Finn said that the assistant commissioners set the targets themselves. Does he want to qualify those remarks? Did the assistant commissioners set their own targets to get bonuses from the State in that period or what was the system of bonus allocation at that time?