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

I suppose that is what I am trying to clarify. It is not that there was necessarily a systematic attempt to somehow do it wrong. I would not like to define it as a mess, but it was effectively a mess in the way a senior guy was saying that this is the way it has been logged in here, so log it in that way. The whole process shows a complete lack of training and the structures that should be in place to run a proper system if people are going to rely on the data.

I will finish on the data. I am conscious that the witnesses have been here a long time and other colleagues want to come in. I wish to return to another aspect of those Policing Authority meetings. Allowing for what we know now and the sequence the witnesses have outlined, based on the evidence supplied about the reports to the Policing Authority - irrespective of whether there was an actual report - how would the witnesses define that evidence being given? Was it truthful evidence? Were the people supplying that information effectively misleading the Policing Authority either by accident or deliberately?