Mr. Hugh Hume:

The dispute began on or around 4 July 2021. At that point there were 285 unsupervised investigations. At the week ending 3 April 2022, there were 354 unsupervised investigations within the Garda Síochána and 73 supervised investigations. At this stage we are not in a position to say definitively what impact that has had in terms of a delay because the SIOs have 16 to 20 weeks to investigate. Forty Garda SIOs have written to say they were unable to progress cases due to the dispute. We can say definitively that 77 unsupervised investigations and four supervised investigations were affected. However, we do not know the impact of any delay because we were not contacted in every case by the Garda SIOs to understand the delays. It will not be until these cases work through the system that we will be able to identify that delay.