Mr. Joseph Nugent:

It is a really important point. In fact, it was discussed at our last meeting of the Policing Authority. I would make a couple of points. At a structural level, we are appointing a chief data officer - the recruitment competition for that is under way - to deal with some of the issues to which the Deputy referred, to recognise the importance of data within the organisation and to ensure that we have the practices throughout, from the Phoenix Park right down to every Garda station in the country, to understand the importance of that.

In that regard, we need to recognise what our data are. They are not only about numbers, statistics and percentages. All of our pieces relate to interactions with individuals. That is probably where we need to start. When we get people to think that the statistical return is not about the return, it is about what is behind that information. That is the cultural difference that we are striving to achieve. If people can look at it in that way, it changes the dynamics where suddenly one realises that one's interaction with an individual, whether it is a breath test or whether it is some other matter that one is addressing and dealing with, is the important part and that the data are almost a follow-on from that. It is my belief it will change the way in which we are dealing with the issue.