Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

We hope our statement was worded in a way that indicates the seriousness and gravity with which we are taking this matter. We will not be able to identify anything other than that until Assistant Commissioner O'Sullivan and those involved in the external investigation carry out their work. We had a deep and robust discussions on these matters when we were crafting the statement. As I said, what we have at the moment is "at worst....deception". We concur with the full description of deception as set out by the Chairman just now. That, at worst, is what we have at the moment. At best, what we have at the moment is incompetence. That will remain the position until Assistant Commissioner O'Sullivan carries out his work and the external investigation concludes. Beyond that, we do not know. I will conclude by giving the committee an assurance, as I did at the end of my opening statement, that we will identify those who are responsible and accountable for this and we will hold them to account.