Mr. Peter Whelan:

The most important from an operational point of view are the incidents of concern. We will no longer need to have a complaint. If the Commissioner becomes aware of an allegation of notifiable misconduct or criminal offence, he now has to notify us. We make a decision then on whether we take the case or not. We will not be reading in the paper anymore about cases gardaí have taken against other gardaí in court. We will receive all of those. That is substantial and is also a substantial amount of work.

The second thing is the local intervention process is at the moment an informal process where we send back low-level, service-level complaints. They all now have to go through an admissibility process. That adds quite substantial numbers to our admissibility process.