Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I suppose there were a couple of things going on. Everybody's attention was focusing on that period and the 41 cases but another narrative was running alongside that, which I found particularly frightening. This related to ongoing concerns the witnesses were attempting to flag. They said one example involved a deceased person who had been a victim of domestic violence and whose partner was involved in another relationship marked by domestic violence. They said they subsequently highlighted a number of similar cases. They described how getting to that stage was like stitching together a patchwork quilt. From reading that, I conclude that there were people in 2017 who were in danger because of incomplete data. I put this matter to Assistant Commissioner Finn on the previous occasion on which he was before the committee in terms of that situation and the review that was ongoing. I specifically asked him whether in the cases of domestic violence death, other incidents of domestic violence on the person's file would be analysed in case there was a missing link so a sign that had been flagged could lead to something being averted. He told us that a new processes were in place. I think he said that when Dr. Singh and his team look at the data on domestic violence, they would find that crimes had been classified correctly from the start. My first question is whether the witnesses found that domestic violence incidents have been correctly classified from the start. Second, do the witnesses know anything about these new processes Assistant Commissioner Finn told us are in place that will alert the user if the person has been involved in a previous domestic violence incident relating to the person in place?