Ms Josephine Feehily:

I completely accept that point. I think public confidence in policing and in policing accountability is enormously important, and I have spoken lots of times about it. If public confidence in the authority has been dented by this, then we will have to work harder at it. I would say, as I am biased and I have a lot of professional pride in the work the authority has done, that I believe that the authority has gained a lot of public confidence by the persistent way in which it has pursued a range of matters. This is only one. As I said in my earlier engagement, were it not for the authority, limited as it is, light would not be shone on a lot of Garda performance issues.