Mr. Cyril Dunne:

I will deal with the major investigation side first. Initially, we were going to deliver the project over six phases. These were major investigation management, focusing on the document and content management side; exhibit tracking; informant handling; intelligence management and search for intelligence; investigative analysis; and enterprise search. When we examined the cost of splitting it in such a fashion, we identified a better delivery approach, where we focused on informant handling and intelligence management first so we could deliver them early on. That was also driven by some of the recommendations coming through from various reports, particularly from the inspectorate side.

The first phase of the major investigations project was started in 2010 and we have that solution in place for what we call the national source management unit, with the "source" being an intelligence source. We developed that over six months and it has been deployed in all those units within the Dublin metropolitan region. We completed roll-out to all the other regions in February 2012.