Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin:

Policing plans, the first of which to be published is the national policing plan, outline our very broad, overarching goals. The Policing Authority has been very much involved with us in this process since its formation but, as that cascades down to the regions and the divisions and into the districts, we must give a certain amount of latitude to the local management to interpret it in the context of the issues for them in their own respective areas. We have just started to roll out a formal performance system within An Garda Síochána. Previously people were not individually measured, or could not be because the system was not there regarding any of these key performance indicators, KPIs, so it would be a matter for local management to decide what they felt were the issues for them in the context of achieving a national outcome, which was directed from the Commissioner's policing plan for a given period.