shortcomings

Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has accepted there were "a number of shortcomings" in the early stages of the police investigation and has met Ms Simpson’s family to apologise.

Speaking in the Dáil on 15 October, Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald that the case has highlighted "issues and shortcomings" in the party's internal procedures.

The shortcomings of its money-laundering oversight were known to the executives directly responsible for the program and to the bank’s board, the Justice Department said.

"This is a commercial company offering a product to consumers who are, in addition, minors. They must, therefore, answer for the product's shortcomings."

Meanwhile, Trump fumed – blaming the Republican shortcomings on the party’s support of unpopular abortion restrictions and insufficient fealty to his own brand of conservative populism.