Mr. Mark Kelly:

Clearly not is the answer to that question. We have looked at and counted the number of reviews, inquiries and investigations under way and counted ten or eleven as being active in various ways, including the Haddington Road review by the inspectorate to which I referred. The real problem is twofold. First, we are facing into a period of weeks and months when from week to week, month to month, there will be new revelations and findings, starting perhaps with the Cooke report, followed by the Fennelly review. If it is done in a piecemeal fashion, public confidence in the integrity of Garda accountability and An Garda Síochána will continue to be affected. Second, the effect of having this series of reviews which are partially overlapping but with different mandates and terms of reference is that we will not get the whole picture. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties stated previously that in its view one of the single most important reviews being undertaken was the review this committee was undertaking because it was at least focusing on the legislation as a nexus. If the committee makes recommendations about how the Garda Síochána Act 2005 should be amended, these recommendations will need to include the full panoply of accountability changes. It is not clear to us that the existing inquiries and reviews will be sufficient to do this in a comprehensive way.