Mr. Noel Waters:

Because the costs associated with that would be enormous. Clearly, the gardaí could not do it. It would have to be done by a private company. We are talking about thousands of people who would potentially be subject to electronic tagging. The information would be historic; it would not be live. For example, if somebody who was subject to one of these tags had left his or her home and gone to a provincial town centre, and the conditions were that he or she should not be there on a Saturday night because of a serious assault committed previously, that information would only be available the following day at the earliest, by which point-----