Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

The warning, as the Garda Síochána will have gone through here, is not in current practice. Gardaí give warnings as part of graduated policing and inform people that they are in danger of breaching legislation, but there is no facility in Garda practice to record a warning. They do not do it and it raises issues around the presumption of innocence. The PULSE system, for instance, is specifically for convictions. There is a logic to that, that you do not just document things short of convictions and hold the records on those.