Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is completely unrealistic to expect gardaí or anyone to go back and listen to all of them. Part of Mr. O'Sullivan's explanation for why the figures are inflated is that, after a checkpoint incident, a garda phones up the Garda information centre and is asked how many cars they stopped in an evening. They may reply that it was 20, 30 or 40. Was there such a level of unscientific communication between gardaí and the GISC at that time?