Mr. Mark Toland:

Tusla is trying to develop a national system but that will be a challenge as it has five separate IT systems. The situation makes data monitoring and the accuracy of data extremely difficult. At least PULSE is one system that we can go to but it is not easy to extract information from same. We mentioned in our report that we had difficulty in correlating or reconciling Garda figures with Tusla figures for notifications. We found that there was an enormous difference between both figures. We have recommended that this matter is examined in order to makes sure that things are not lost.