Opposition reaction: Opposition parties have called for prosecutions against corrupt gardaí who are criticised in the report.
They also called for urgent Government action to speed up Garda reform.
Fine Gael's justice spokesman Mr Jim O'Keeffe said the report was a damning indictment of individual gardaí. He said such people should be held to account, subject to due process, for their actions.
He also called for the establishment of an Oireachtas security committee to oversee reform of the force.
"The most important aspect of the report is the findings of Judge Morris relating to the structure and management of An Garda Síochána, and its obligation to account for itself, to the Government and, through it, to the people.
"It is essential that the structural defects and deficiencies identified in the report be now addressed."
Fine Gael Senator Jim Higgins called on the tribunal to make a special provision for the payment of legal fees to the McBrearty family.
It is alleged that the family was framed by gardaí for the murder of Co Donegal cattle dealer Mr Richie Barron.
Labour's spokesman Mr Joe Costello called for prosecutions.
He said the report depicted a bizarre litany of criminal misconduct by individual gardaí, gross negligence, general malaise, indiscipline and mismanagement at various levels of the force.
It was disturbing to read the conclusion that similar activities could easily occur again under different circumstances.
"This report has serious implications, not just for the members directly criticised, whose corrupt and criminal activities are set out in such detail, but also for senior officers of the Garda, and for those whose responsibility it was at the time to exercise political supervision of the force," said Mr Costello.
The justice spokesman for the Green Party, Mr Ciarán Cuffe, called for immediate resignations from the Garda over the horrendous indictment of Garda procedures and management "from Donegal to Dublin".
"The tribunal regarded with disquiet the promotion to senior ranks of persons who were unwilling or unable to give to their vocation the energy and aptitude that it demanded.
"I believe that those individuals should be dismissed from the force."
The Sinn Féin justice spokesman, Mr Aengus Ó Snodaigh, said that the findings were extremely serious, and they served to highlight the urgency of comprehensive Garda reform.
"We have known for a long time now that the present system has led to a culture of impunity for Garda misconduct. This is not new.
"Given the findings of gross negligence at senior Garda level, it is totally inappropriate to refer this matter to an internal group hand-picked by the Garda commissioner.
"It must be dealt with by a fully independent Garda ombudsman, which, but for the Minister's foot-dragging, could have been established by now."
