Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wonder about the wisdom of that for the committee. I want him to come here and set it out. If the methodology is robust and this is how they went about their work, that is great. However, we have to have surveillance of that and he needs to understand from day one and page one of taking on his duties that he is not going to mislead or fob off this committee. We have been through that experience with An Garda Síochána, which was not a good experience for anyone concerned. It is not an experience we will repeat. As a member of the committee, my preference is simply to cut to the chase and invite the acting commissioner in to make good a commitment he made to the committee last July. We can have an exchange which will be a fairly short one if matters are transparent and clear. We are entitled to surveillance of that and should not be going with a cap-in-hand attitude to the Garda. We need to be firmer than that.