Tiocfaidh: on the assumption that you are not being deliberately stupid, I will try to explain. In the first quote of mine that you've reproduced above, I was talking about statistical data that all NI employers have been obliged to maintain for many years. I made that perfectly clear. In the second I was talking about evidence that the law had been broken in a specific individual case. That too I made explicitly clear. There need be not the slightest inconsistency in taking one view about the former and another about the latter. I hope that's helped you to understand.

Nothing is ever hunky dory. We live in the real world.

What identity crisis?