Mr. Hugh Hume:

The industrial relations issue only arose from 4 July 2021 and that is when we became aware of the issue. That is an internal matter within An Garda Síochána relating to superintendents' pay, which as we mentioned, we are not at liberty to discuss.

We were informed that a number of the discipline investigations were unsupervised and were not being progressed as a result of that issue. These are only unsupervised investigations. No criminal investigations were passed to Garda investigations. This issue was dealt with solely within GSOC. At that time there were 285 unsupervised investigations and 109 supervised disciplinary investigations in the Garda Síochána. A total of 40 Garda superintendents contacted us to say they were unable to progress cases due to the dispute. We know of 77 unsupervised cases and four supervised cases that were delayed. We do not have the full picture because not everyone contacted us. We are now working our way through that system.