Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would hope that Brexit is not the prompt that results in additional resourcing; I hope it is for other, better reasons in terms of everything else we have discussed today.

On the matter of the assembly and Mr. Todd's reference earlier to statutory compulsion, my colleagues have picked up on that and it is very important and useful information. As Chairman of the committee, and in view of the various hats I wear, I hope that the assembly and Executive will be back up and running as quickly as possible, not only for the sake of this matter - whatever the reasons it could not be embraced North of the Border as it has been in England and Wales with perhaps a slightly different arrangement in Scotland - but also in terms of all the other matters that are not being addressed. I know all colleagues here share my view.

It was indicated that a number of the statistics are down. From what I noted from what was put on the record, that is a consequence of good policing work in terms of prevention. Burglaries and all of that are down - reference was made to Operation Thor - because of preventative work. That is most important and I congratulate the Garda on all of it. However, I wonder what has happened in respect of detection statistics. Perhaps the witnesses do not have the figures with them but they might like to comment on that area.