Mr. Jer Bergin:

We are in the process of looking at best practice in every jurisdiction.

There are a number of examples in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, but there is no perfect solution. One of the things we are doing, and which Mr. Connolly will do in his role, is assessing various vehicle-tracking technologies and different types of equipment, seeing what works and what does not. We are not salespeople for security system companies. Our responsibility is to our members and to rural communities and putting together policies and packages that will work for them. The advantage we have over everywhere else is our broad membership base. We have 90,000 members and 950 branches, which gives us a reach. Ireland is a small country and if we can use that bit of knowledge, we will do so, through text alerts, reporting to the Garda, uploading information and documenting it, so that gardaí can access it. We will also work to change policy in terms of encouraging the Legislature to put resources into the Garda. Some of the recent initiatives are very good in terms of extra resources but we also need, for example, to target the markets that were referred to with a van - there has been some targeting by gardaí early in the morning - and we need to close off the market at the other end as well.