Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In essence, what they were highlighting was the purpose of the project and that the reassurance the victims of crime needed was not just the classification but that the homicide had been investigated to the standards of which a homicide should be investigated.

There was no way for them to validate that unless the full case files were examined.

How many people were on the review group, or whatever it was, that was set up internally in January 2017? Who examined the files? Were all the files examined in detail? My impression of what the Policing Authority was told was that, in response to the analysts asking whether the investigation had been done properly and requesting to examine the files, senior Garda management telephoned the superintendents who had conducted the investigations in the first place and asked them whether they had been conducted well, to which all those officers surprisingly said that they had been. All the investigations were deemed to be grand. That is the impression that has been given.