Mr. Mark Toland:

It is important because the recommendations referred to are the ones accepted by the Commissioner or with a modification. Technically, the Commissioner could reject a recommendation, for operational reasons, but the Policing Authority will only receive the ones that are accepted. In the case of the report on crime investigation, all bar one of the 212 recommendations made were accepted. I would not lose any sleep over the one that was not accepted as it concerned where a unit should sit. The Policing Authority has, therefore, accepted the spirit of the recommendations made and on which we have done a lot of work. We were also given the power of review. I am reviewing a report we produced on child sexual abuse in 2012. We now also have the power to initiate our own inspections. Among the issues we are considering are high-risk areas in crime investigation. We would like to go back to check, reinspect and make sure these areas are being covered. One power we would like to have is the power to make unannounced visits in order that if we were dealing with a particularly high-risk area and did not want preparatory work to be done before we attended, we would like to have the ability to turn up at a Garda station to inspect some processes live to get a reality check.