Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Fisher for that.

My second question relates to the worrying fact that the Garda bureau of fraud investigation has no cyber-crime unit, and the Garda Inspectorate, in a previous report, recommended a new system replacing the PULSE system. The inspectorate acknowledges that such a new system is subject to available resources, but we understand that hundreds of millions of euro are being invested in a welcome IT upgrade across An Garda Síochána.

The inspectorate has proposed a serious and organised crime unit. It is alarming to contemplate the present situation in 2015, when one thinks about white-collar crime and the use of the Internet for viewing images of child abuse or other criminal purposes. We need to give An Garda Síochána the most up-to-date technology and the personnel needed to combat these things. One of the issues I was worried about was the backlog. At one stage in 2014 there was a backlog of 1,000 cases, some of which involved very serious offenders, and there was a possibility that some of them would get off. Maybe the witnesses would detail their vision in the report for change and so on.