Mr. Barry Donoghue:

Yes. The Commission on the Future of Policing's report in a short passage recommended that essentially gardaí be pulled out of criminal cases in the District Court and that some other system be put in their place, either a national prosecution service or an extended State solicitor service. It is a very short passage, and teasing it out would be difficult. It might be of interest to the committee that when this was looked at 20 years or so ago by the Nally group, it said 400 more lawyers would be needed to replace gardaí in the courts, so it does not come at no cost.