Mr. Cormac Quinlan:

If I may pick up on that issue, the NCCIS was built on what we call our standard business process document. The business process did not include retrospective abuse because it was not an issue for us at the time, as Mr. McBride has highlighted. The next phase of NCCIS will build that capacity. Referrals that come into the NCCIS at the moment are child-based referrals because we are a child protection agency. In any case, we are normally looking for the child we are concerned about, to intervene; even in retrospective abuse cases we are always seeking to find the child who is at risk now, today. That is how we progress those cases. We will be able to record information about adults effectively in the system, not as a referral but as what we call "person details" in the system. We will be able to make a record of the adult victim and the person against whom the abuse allegation is made. We will have an interim solution in NCCIS going forward.