Mr. Hugh Hume:

As regards the relationship, this is, I think, the only time we are aware of that this has happened, that we have brought members of An Garda Síochána in under that specific legislation to assist and they were seconded and placed under our control. This was unique and spoke to the unique nature of the investigation, the particular skill sets required for the investigation and where we were in terms of resourcing at that time, when it came in. I therefore have nothing to benchmark this against bar this one case because it is the only time we have done that. We can talk about it on a practical basis. We receive support from An Garda Síochána as regards road traffic collisions, ballistics and forensics very regularly, but that is ad hocand case-specific.