Mr. Martin Callinan:

There is an advertisement campaign. We have two forensic accountants - grade I - working in this area and they are highly skilled and very specialised. We have an advertisement on the go looking for an additional two and we believe we will be successful in securing them in the not too distant future. I cannot give the Deputy a precise date, but we have indicated that we need them. It is an ongoing process.

The difficulty with beefing up one unit is that it means one has to take from somewhere else. There are always competing interests. The whole area of organised crime presents a huge challenge for us. The challenge for all the specialist units - the Garda national drugs unit, the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the Criminal Assets Bureau, the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation and the Garda air support unit - is to provide the type of service we would like to provide. That is why I have affirmed my position with regard to letting the number drop too much below 13,000. This is the space we are in. We have got to get on with it.