Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is generally accepted by An Garda Síochána. That is good. I do not expect the witnesses from GSOC to comment on the Garda dispute because it is outside their remit but in terms of its effect on the work of GSOC, on 20 March 2022, a total of 355 cases were referred to An Garda Síochána - this is from GSOC's briefing - under section 94(1), that is, unsupervised. There were 73 relating to section 94(5), that is, supervised. When the dispute commenced in July 2021, the figures stood at 285 and 109, respectively. A member asked about the effects of that dispute. If matters were held up from July 2021 until February 2022, that is a delay of seven months so there is a delay at the start of it. In terms of cases held up, if GSOC calculates the figures it has, adding 355 cases to the 73 that were referred to supervised investigations gives a total of 428. As of March 2022, the cases stand at 285. That indicates that 143 cases were held up due to that dispute.

Would that be correct, according to the figures Commissioner Hume has given us?