Mr. Michael O'Sullivan:

I reiterate that we found no evidence of any tangible benefit that would have acted as a catalyst to encourage Garda members to inflate breath test figures. There was no career advancement or other obvious reward from engaging in the practice. Estimation happened in the call taking and interactions between gardaí. We are not talking about estimation at an upper level. On the reference to estimation, we know from the recording that there were checkpoints days later. There were no notes and estimation was used rather than accurate figures. That is my assumption. In the report I referred to it as not being deliberate inflation. We have separated it and put it as estimation.