Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The report also denied the fact that any pressure was put on by management in this regard, a finding that was completely contradicted by Crowe Horwath's report, which said it was exactly that pressure to report performance that was at the back of it. That is what it states and I am just repeating it. I have it in front of me. This is in direct contradiction to what the witnesses stated. We had a full discussion here on this issue on the previous occasion and the issue was denied. I put the scenario of how it could possibly have happened and how management did not spot it when checkpoints were being returned on the system as having been conducted on a tour of duty when, maybe, a whole plethora of other work had been going on that night in the station. I spoke about how management in a station never thought of joining the dots and asking how could there have been three checkpoints the previous night given there was a riot on the main street and the station was processing people all night and arresting them. It just did not add up. On the previous occasion, the witnesses denied that could have happened, and Mr. O'Sullivan's report does not address it. I know the point on the analysis of digging down and getting the exact numbers, but it was not identified in the report as being a reason for this.