Mr. Michael O'Sullivan:

If Deputy Chambers reads what the report says about the issue of the stopped and controlled vehicles, which contributed significantly, in my view, to the poor recording, he will see that quite often, because two manuals were in existence, the Garda Information Services Centre would send a review clarification to the garda who uploaded the data. The review clarification resulted, I think, in the numbers being increased or, in some cases, decreased in about 0.4% of incidents. That is a role of the review clarification, and there is a chapter in the report on the issue of the vehicles stopped and controlled. I would not use the word "falsification"; I think it was poor training on the part of both the call-taker in the Garda Information Services Centre, GISC, and the gardaí involved and neither understanding the other's position as to what was required in the various boxes.