Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said: “We're not putting this down to a systems failure."

The Policing Authority been unable to access any of the cancelled calls because of a data protection issue

The review found that in some domestic violence and sexual assault calls, the wrong address was taken, meaning no Garda car was ever dispatched

Latest meeting between the Policing Authority and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris heard just 114 out of nearly 6,000 cancelled domestic violence or sexual assault calls had involved a crime, a drop from the figure of at least 400 cited by Mr Harris in July

There is an ongoing review of 200,000 calls, 3,000 of which are related to domestic violence

The authority said the ongoing issues were of 'serious concern' and some of the incidents were identified as 'very high risk'

Mary McDermott, chief executive of Safe Ireland, said the continued cancellation of calls as well as ongoing incidents of poor practice highlighted 'the need for immediate and substantive training on coercive control for all members of the force'

Bob Collins, chair of the Policing Authority, criticised Garda Commissioner Drew Harris and the gardaí for providing insufficient information on why the calls were cancelled