Ms Josephine Feehily:

I can give the Deputy some current information but in any given year we would have 120 or 150 cases, depending on the year, under particular investigation for criminal prosecution in a pipeline, and they would move through the various stages. We have to be very careful that we do not arbitrarily select cases for prosecution so we have a rigorous process of an admissions committee that determines whether a case is admitted to the prosecution stream because then it has a serious impact on how we approach a case after that in terms of cautioned interviews, evidence gathering and so on.