Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It would be good if the Minister could give us the figure because it is very hard to keep track of it. He told us that the allocation for ICT would cover automatic number plate recognition technology in all Garda vehicles. We know that in 2015 the programme had to be suspended because of the errors in the database and because hundreds of thousands of drivers had been wrongly identified as having failed to pay their car insurance. It cost about €6 million to fix that ICT problem. Is the automatic number plate recognition system which the Minister told us last year would be installed fully covered in the allocation for the ICT programme? What portion of the allocation is going towards its cost? Has funding been allocated for facial recognition systems which are also described in the modernisation and renewal programme? Where are we on that aspect?