Mr. Michael Finn:

I do not consider them to be minor in the context of how we investigate any homicide. That does not reflect what we do on the ground. In fact, the review of the investigations we looked at did not find that cases were not properly investigated. While, as my colleague outlined, they were not recorded with the correct classification on our IT system, when one delves into the investigation files, one finds they were investigated. There are investigation files to go to. On road traffic collisions, there were fatal collisions which were investigated and directions came back subsequently to charge someone with dangerous driving causing death, the garda created the charge and it went to court. However, having regard to crime counting rules, he or she should have created a separate incident of dangerous driving causing death so that when the CSO looked at our figures, it would have seen a fatal collision and the charge which it would then have recorded as a homicide.