Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is stated on page 76 of the report that "a degree of carelessness and estimation was part of the data collection process". Why is it that carelessness and estimation always seem to be in an upward direction? Surely an honest estimate would be too low as many times as it would be too high. The elephant in the room - the report goes out of its way to avoid pointing it out - is that many gardaí must have acted dishonestly and fraudulently when they provided false breath test figures and that many of their superiors encouraged this to improve their own promotion profile. Does Mr. O'Sullivan agree that what is really meant when the report refers to inflation or the Garda Representatives Association refers to "elevation" of the figures is a dishonest falsification of crime data? Is that not true?