Probe into breath tests took ‘inordinate’ time

The Policing Authority has said that “getting to the bottom” of the breath test scandal and the homicide controversy has consumed an “inordinate” amount of its time.

In its 2017 annual report, the authority said that while it had seen “positive and excellent performance” by gardaí in communities, it had also been, “in many cases”, disappointed by what it had come across.

In her foreword, authority chairwoman Josephine Feehily said that Garda data quality came very much to the fore in 2017.