David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I can see how it might arise, but Ms Barry's answer is no. Is she aware that a 2014 report into the Department mentioned a closed, secretive culture? She is. It talked about significant leadership and management problem and stated that "the Review Group found the culture of the Department to be closed and unnecessarily secretive"; that it was "an inward-looking organisation with limited learning capacity and reduced openness to new ideas"; and that it had a lack of clear responsibility and accountability both within the Department and when dealing with external agencies. It then lists those external agencies and among them is An Garda Síochána. The report goes on to specifically state that the management of the relationship of the Department with An Garda Síochána also needed to be examined and then finally says that this relationship is ineffective and an oversight of a confused, passive and disaggregated departmental relationship with An Garda Síochána. What improvements have been made since then to specifically address that relationship?