Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

Yes, it is something of which I am very aware. On 9 June 2016, when we published our modernisation and renewal programme, one key issue we identified was the need to reform the culture of An Garda Síochána. It is more than just an aspiration in a document; it is something that we commenced going all the way back to 2014 when I took up the position of interim Garda Commissioner. The Deputy will have seen from this and from other issues that part of the changing of that culture is to make sure that we identify the issues, make them known publicly and that we are prepared to open up the organisation to constructive criticism. We also have to have the courage and bravery to empower our people to actually identify where mistakes have happened, where there are less-than-good practices or weak practices and to make sure that we do not just identify those but that we actually do something about them and go about fixing them. That is what we are doing in this case.