Mr. John Barrett:

I begin by making what I consider to be inquiries concerning arrangements, which are outside the line command. I am the line manager for the Garda College, but there is a range of activities going on, if one likes, outside the scope of my control and they are significant. In the early stages of this I had some very good help from Barry McGee. He was the author of the 2008 report. It was very quickly visible that despite the reports of 2008 and 2010 - this was now 2015 - the issues remained extant; they were there. I have to say I had never envisaged that arrangements so repugnant to the blue book were, in effect, allowed to continue and, as I said in my report, in plain view.