Mr. Robert K. Olson:

Absolutely. In fact, I concur with that and have thought about it for a long time. When one looks back at the most recent reports, including the fixed-charge penalty issue, crime inspection, and some of the pieces of this one - I go back to the start of the inspectorate, with all of the other reports that we did, including on resource allocation - the one theme that was always there was that this is not just about the gardaí. They were the only people we could really look at, however, and they have to get us what we want and we have to have access. As regards fixed-charge penalties, if it had not been for the inspectorate, the Courts Service could have said it did not want to talk to us. They were great - do not get me wrong. We worked with them and they came up with some really great ideas that are working.

As regards the Courts Service, there is an issue that we mention again in the report and have recommended before to the effect that gardaí should not be transporting remand prisoners. It ought to be the Prison Service. They do it all over the country and are professionals at it. Those are the kinds of thing that an overall inspectorate could deal with. We could examine prisons to see how many jobs are being done on remand. We could come up with a recommendation and say that this is what ought to happen. We could do the same thing with the Courts Service and the Probation Service.