Ms Josephine Feehily:

Not only were we aware of it, we raised it at a policing committee in mid-April last year, which was attended by both deputy Commissioners. The issue of risk to victims and potential victims does not arise only in relation to domestic violence; it arises everywhere, including in regard to child sex abuse reports. This comes back to the data quality point. It may be boring to be wittering on about data quality but there are people, risks and victims involved. This is pervasive in the Garda culture and in the casual attitude to data, which I discussed with Deputy Brophy. We have been talking about this in public and in private to senior Garda representatives for well over a year.