Barry Ward (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will first say that I appear in court on behalf of the Garda Commissioner and I am a member of the ICCL. I do not believe that either circumstance conflicts me, but I wanted to declare it at the outset.

The questions I wish to ask relate to false positives and the concerns in that regard. I have listened to what the Garda has said about this essentially being a data-processing tool that works in the same way as Ctrl+F in a PDF does. It finds a particular data set, but a human is ultimately responsible for deciding whether that data set is what he or she is looking for. Comment has been made about the number of hours of footage that might have to be looked through and what might be sought out in same. Depending on the quality of the algorithm, it can make mistakes based on the flaws of the person who designed it. In Ireland, for example, that is more likely to be a white person than someone of a different ethnicity. Is there any data or study to support the idea that an individual garda who sits down and watches eight hours of footage, fast forwards through it and finds what he or she believes is Barry Ward is more or less accurate than technology doing the same job?