Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming before us. I know they must be worn out at this stage so I will try not to repeat what others have said. From the point of view of our job here, we have an obligation to oversee issues of Garda accountability and so on. When we bring people in to ask them questions, we must rely on their answers to a certain degree. The witnesses' information has been incredibly helpful to us in terms of challenging some answers we were previously given whereby we did not have the supporting information to say that those answers were not really evidence-based. Our job is to take what the witnesses have given us and bring it to the next stage. I just want to clarify, and it may be a bit eclectic, some of the background to some of this stuff and how we got here. The witnesses were basically asked to carry out a ten-year review of domestic homicides. Was it the witnesses' suggestion that they should start with a sample?