Mr. Robert K. Olson:

I do not know if we grabbed a textbook title for this. However, when we looked at how the organisation was managed, we found too many decisions are made at the top. There is a lack of clear policies with guidelines. Many decisions, for example, are made by a chief superintendent when they ought to be made by a sergeant or an inspector. It goes back to these other cultural issues where people do not want to make decisions. We believe authority needs to be pushed down. Management needs to count on those people below to make those kinds of decisions, with governance at the top of it. In doing so, one does not need all of those folks. We received a submission from the Garda Representative Association, GRA, which recommended the whole rank of assistant commissioner be gotten rid of. We felt that was going a little too far. We did think it was an inefficient system with six assistant commissioners and that it would be much more efficient and effective with three.