The Garda Commissioner, Noel Conroy, has said there is no question of providing garda protection for alleged IRA informer Adrienne McGlinchey.
It was put to him at the Morris Tribunal that if she was an informer Ms McGlinchey was exposed to the most appalling risk, but the Commissioner said there was no intelligence or information that she was at risk.
In earlier evidence, Chief Supt Tom Monaghan said that if Ms McGlinchey was a genuine informer, there was a distinct probability that she would be dead.
Donegal Commissioner Conroy has agreed that there should be training and a garda manual on dealing with informers. He also accepted that there should be periodic reviews of informers.
The tribunal is coming to the end of its first module.
The Explosives module, which got under way in March 2003, has been examining serious allegations against certain gardaí in Donegal relating to explosives finds in the division in the early 1990s.
It has been alleged that Detective Garda Noel McMahon and Superintendent Kevin Lennon were involved in planting hoax explosives finds that at the time were believed to be genuine IRA finds.
The two gardaí deny the allegations, and claim they were told about them by an IRA informant, Adrienne McGlinchey.
Ms McGlinchey denies any involvement with the IRA and says that Mr McMahon blackmailed her into pretending to be an IRA woman.
