Ms Josephine Feehily:

We have not changed our approach to collaborative work in designing the plan. Recently, we had a day-long meeting with senior gardaí to work out the parameters of next year's plan. We have done more work ourselves in advance of the collaborative meeting this year. We have gone in with better-formed views of the targets we expect the Garda to meet.

As I said last year, it was valuable that we set about developing the plan together. There was a concern last year that because we were collaboratively developing the plan we might not measure it robustly. We certainly have shown we do. We regard some elements of the plan we put in place last year as at risk and unlikely to be achieved.