Mr. John O'Driscoll:

The creation of the local protective services unit is very important in that regard and will be manned by people who have the necessary training in this area. It will be at a local rather than national level. Currently, anyone who encounters a case of that nature at a local level has access to the national unit. We interact with and, if needs be, take over such investigations regularly, and we provide advice. Because of the extent to which it is growing and it is a new form of criminality, it requires new forms of policing. That is the motivation for our modernisation and renewal programme creating local units of that nature. We already have the victims units in place throughout the country. As Mr. Daly has noted, we must interact with other bodies, such as Tusla, which might be better placed and have the expertise needed to deal with people who have been victims of this particular type of crime. Mr. Daly might address the earlier issue.