Mr. John Twomey:

Mr. Justice Charleton spoke about the disciplinary regulations in his most recent report. He stated that there is a need for it to be reviewed and for it to be brought up to modern-day standards. That certainly is a view we share. That is certainly something on which there have been discussions over time to the effect that it needs to be done. The disciplinary regulations play an important part in a command-and-control type organisation such as An Garda Síochána. Equally, if not more importantly, so does learning and development, and that is one of the key points we want to acknowledge. Coming back to the Deputy's original question of whether we are we looking at the disciplinary regulations, "yes" is the simple answer.