Mr. Mark Toland:

If they are convicted of a sexual offence, they are all subject to notification requirements, so every single sex offender convicted in court is subject to some kind of monitoring. Only 15% of people on that register are subject to the multi-agency SORAM approach. Some of those sex offenders will be very low-risk. They are risk assessed to see whether they will reoffend. They are all subject to some level of monitoring. Even those who are considered to be low-risk will be subject to one of the agencies, usually the Garda Síochána, which will visit that individual to continue to monitor them for the entirety of the period in which they are subject to notification requirements. Everyone is still monitored, but only a small percentage are monitored by the multi-agency group.