Mr. John Twomey:

The Deputy has asked me whether I knew the end result of the inquiry at the start. That is not what I am at. There was information. There were statistics that were available at a regional level. The discrepancy only became evident as a consequence of the comparative work that was done with the Medical Bureau of Road Safety and with PULSE. That kind of comparison is not done daily. We have a set of stand-alone statistics. It was only as a consequence of the work we did that we were able to draw the conclusions we have drawn here today. We had individual sets of data. It was only when the inquiries were carried out, following the investigation initiated by my office, that we unearthed the information and what we have here today.