Mr. Pat Lordan:

In Cork city there are gardaí dedicated to insurance fraud investigations. However, in many other divisions gardaí are not perhaps in an official fraud unit, but they spend the majority of their time in it. Several throughout the country have good cases and successful cases. They are dedicated almost 99% or 100% of the time to fraud investigations. More and more, we are seeing chief superintendents throughout the country dedicating personnel to fraud investigations. As we speak, personnel are travelling up from the country to spend two or three weeks - in one case someone is coming for three months - with our unit to gather further information and knowledge in order that they can bring it back to their divisions.

I wish to develop what the assistant commissioner, Mr. Twomey, was saying. We have four pilot divisions. There are trained gardaí in all of the other divisions, not only one or two. There are five, six, seven or eight gardaí trained in most of those divisions.