Niall Ó Donnghaile (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Between January 2016 and August this year, GSOC received 1,794 reports of use by gardaí of incapacitating spray - what is known as pepper spray - on suspects. In 80%, or 1,566, of these cases, gardaí failed to notify GSOC about using the spray within 48 hours, as mandated by internal Garda directives. Some uses of pepper spray were only notified to GSOC up to two years after they had occurred. Much of this falls outside the Commissioner's tenure in office, but he will agree that these are startling and unsatisfactory figures. Are there measures he can put in place to address and deal with that matter?