Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Commissioner and his team. To start on a positive note, I believe that the public has significant confidence in Mr. Harris's leadership style. He is out and about meeting people and engaging. That is extremely important. I will offer a little context to Deputy Clare Daly's questioning about the draft report and the Policing Authority. I have been a member of this committee for eight years. A number of Mr. Harris's predecessors have appeared before the committee. Getting information from them was, to a large extent, like drawing teeth. In other words, it was extremely difficult. That is the context. I would be concerned about a draft report. I understand the logic in terms of discipline and similar issues, and they are important. I will not go down the same route as Deputy Clare Daly, however, because she has exhausted that line of question to a large extent. Is the Policing Authority happy with the delay in providing the draft report and the reasoning for that delay? Has Mr. Harris obtained an opinion from the authority? Is it satisfied with the delays in making the draft report available to it and, by extension, putting it in the public domain?