Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not mean this in a personal way, but I find it amazing that the Policing Authority cannot answer how many of the recommendations have been implemented. Some of the recommendations were quite simple - for example, the laminated card, the risk principles, the new ones that Dr. Shannon designed. The Policing Authority's brief is to oversee systems and principles, and children is a key one on which he has done the work where there would not be that level of liaison between the Policing Authority and the Garda. That is what I am finding hard to grapple with all the questions. The same goes for the promotions. The Act makes it clear that the Policing Authority has a responsibility to keep itself informed of complaints against members of the Garda, for example, and how disciplinary procedures are being applied, but Ms Feehily seems to put a distance there as well. That is just what I am struggling with on all of the issues.