Mr. John Twomey:

I will begin at the end. The buy-in is very real. We are of the firm belief that we need to achieve the right behaviours being guided by the right values. That is where we have moved into this restorative process. We absolutely accept the point that to commence a discipline process against some sections of the organisation and not others would be wrong, and that is why we have taken a more holistic, across the organisation approach from ethical and cultural perspectives. We have recently completed our cultural audit. As we sit here, these findings are being analysed. All the learnings from each of those programmes will come together to achieve the change to which the Deputy referred.

We are of one mind on the behaviours and culture that we want to develop in the organisation, but it is a large organisation that is here since 1922 and the culture and behaviours are ingrained in it since then, so it will take time. The firm commitment I can give here is that the people sitting at this side of the table are absolutely committed that this is the direction in which we are going and we will provide the leadership required for us to move the organisation in that direction. I do not know any member of An Garda Síochána who did not join to serve or who does not come into work every day to serve their community and do their best by it. We would not have the country we have that we can all be proud of were that not the case. That is a positive thing. It is absolutely the case that there are things we need to address, and we are giving a commitment about what we are going to do with that. I share the Deputy's view of the future and the direction in which we are going in that, and I thank the Deputy for his support.

On supervision, Crowe Horwath would say that there are a number of issues and areas, of which this is one. As I set out at the outset, there are a combination of reasons. Crowe Horwath says in its report, and the Policing Authority says in its commentary, that no supervision is needed for people to write in the correct records. We cannot get away from that. We cannot pick one factor and say that is the reason for everything and if we fix that, the problem will be resolved. Given the extent of the problem and the length of the period during which it was ongoing, and because of systems and myriad issues, some sections did not provide the governance there ought to have been, and that is a lesson we have learned. It is a combination of reasons. When I read the Crowe Horwath report, I did so in its entirety, and my summation is that there were a number of weaknesses right throughout the organisation from the top to the bottom, and we acknowledge that.