Ms Laura Galligan:

There is ongoing work in the Garda national traffic bureau. They are looking at a lot of incident types, the data quality fields and things like that and improvements are being made. Fatal hit-and-runs are referred to the Office of the State Pathologist so I was picking up on them and saying it is a crime if one leaves a scene or if it is a case of dangerous driving causing death. From the moment the person is found, a crime investigation is initiated but it is being recorded under a non-crime incident type of "traffic-fatal" and there is no identifiable parameter to say it was a hit-and-run unless it was recorded in the narrative. I was concerned by that.