Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

The role of An Garda Síochána and my role as Commissioner of An Garda Síochána is to ensure we provide a service to the public. Part of this is keeping communities safe. It is my job to ensure the necessary structures and practices are in place, so the threats posed by organised crime, terrorism and volume crime, and public safety issues that impact on everybody's day-to-day living priorities are priorities for An Garda Síochána. I am also very focused on ensuring we deal with a number of issues that are historic in nature but nevertheless identify where there are weak practices and bad practices in the organisation. In doing that we also identify good practice and we make sure we shine a light on both. There are good practices we have identified, and we make sure we put things in place to bring these forward. Very important, in the context of the issues we are discussing here today, is where we identify issues such as we have identified here, we bring them to the fore and we make sure they are addressed, as in this case. It is very important that we provide assurances to the committee and, by extension, to the public that actually we are not being remiss in doing this. As soon as we became aware of these issues in 2015 they were immediately addressed, and we are actively engaging to ensure the recommendations highlighted in Mr. Kelly's report, albeit an interim report, are being fully implemented. I have no doubt that as Mr. Kelly's work continues other issues will be identified, and we will also address these and deal with them. I would like to provide assurances to the committee that we take this extraordinarily seriously. The executive team is making sure all the issues are being addressed, but we have line managers who do the day-to-day business in this regard.