Ms Helena Kiely:

As I mentioned, on the first two projects, it is a message exchange between different agencies. The Court Service's outcomes, which will be a conviction or an acquittal, is one of the first messages they want to put into the centre so that agencies like ours will be able to get accurate statistics at District Court, Circuit Court and Central Criminal Court levels. The project, which is called the criminal justice hub, is mirroring what is available in Northern Ireland. It is trying to automate messages from different criminal justice agencies into a central hub. They are collated so that we will have an accurate position on individual accused but also in respect of statistics, that is, the number of incidents, the number of offences directed, the number of convictions and the number of people who are likely to serve sentences this year. It will provide a statistical analysis of figures that every agency will know is accurate and can refer to going forward.