Mr. John Redmond:

I suppose we have a difficulty with GSOC being involved as a confidential recipient and anything that would fall from that situation. That continues to be an issue for us. The reason we say so is that a body which is set up to investigate complaints made against gardaí, in our view, would not be the first port of call that a garda would go to when he or she has a complaint to make about the organisation, or something within the organisation, which is causing them some stress or distress. It is purely for that reason. I believe it would not sit right with our members that they would be required to report something to the people who would investigate them.