Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to switch tack away from the Policing Authority to a completely different aspect of it. This relates more to Ms Galligan's area. A layperson listening to anything like this would be knocking their head against a wall wondering how a garda cannot know when a homicide is a homicide and how a classification can be so wrong. I appreciate Ms Galligan gave us some very detailed information and alluded to the fact that there can be certain grey ones. However, we seem to be way beyond the area of certain individual grey cases into just people not recording. In light of other ways in which the Garda has recorded figures, we get to this.

I know there is a review and the changes the witnesses have outlined. Is it fair to say that either the current PULSE system is structurally completely unsound for recording data or, as Ms Galligan also made reference to at one point, gardaí are not filling in fields - maybe choosing to leave them blank? What is at the heart of the mis-recording at an input level? Is it structurally completely inept and not working or is there just a laissez-faireattitude to actually inputting information or is it a combination?