Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I accept that it was 2012 but I point out that many of the issues with which we have been dealing in respect of An Garda Síochána and policing relate to that same time period.

I will raise one last topic. I was very interested to hear Mr. Nugent's discussion with one of my colleagues in respect of protected disclosures. Obviously I do not want anyone to go into the details of any individual protected disclosures but I noted from Mr. Nugent's opening statement that new processes have been put in place regionally to take, filter and analyse protected disclosures. That is welcome. It is a good action and is necessary. However, I am surprised, given there is nothing sensitive about this, that Mr. Nugent does not know the number of protected disclosures within An Garda Síochána.