Mr. Noel Waters:

I would welcome the fact that somebody has come forward and raised all of these issues. I would welcome that. That is a major development as far as I am concerned. Whatever needs to be done on foot of that will be done in respect of the Department. There is one point that I need to make here. The Department is not a back seat driver of An Garda Síochána. The Department did not run Templemore training centre. It is important to note that we were not involved in the nitty-gritty details of what was going on in Templemore at that stage, no more than we were in terms of any other part of the Garda estate or apparatus. We were not involved in that.