Ms Josephine Feehily:

We are very proud that we produced a code of ethics within 12 months, as required by the Act. We have been working with Garda colleagues, developing a plan for embedding the code of ethics right throughout the work of the Garda Síochána, and not just in finance and auditing. I was certainly very pleased recently when Deputy Commissioner Twomey said to me that the code was timely and the Garda would find it very helpful in focusing the organisation on ethical commitments set out in the code. We raise this every month with the Garda Commissioner and we have set out what we expect the organisation to do in terms of embedding the code in training and the decision-making model for all their policing decisions. With promotion systems and so on, we want to see the code of ethics referenced all over the place. We will be proselytising about it for quite a while. I am sorry for the long answer but it is "Yes". It is something of which we are very proud.