Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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I am trying to join the pieces here because we are talking about classification and misclassification of homicide in a domestic situation. There are linked areas around that which I want to feed into. The 2014 report suggested that all crimes of domestic violence and incidents of dispute should be recorded on PULSE irrespective of the willingness of a victim to make a complaint. When was that implemented? Has it been implemented? Is it the subject of ongoing review? The reason I ask is that there is a link. What assurance can the acting Commissioner give us about domestic abuse incidents which were misclassified, having been reported as a tension or complaint rather than as the serious assault which actually occurred? I am asking about where the signs were not recognised and that subsequently became a domestic homicide. Does the acting Commissioner know what point I am making? There is a potential link between the early classification of the original domestic violence and a failure to follow the signs in those early investigations. If the signs were not followed and a case was not investigated properly, something may have ended up as a homicide which should not have. That might not have happened if the investigation of the earlier domestic incident had been treated properly.