Mr. John Twomey:

Invariably it will be detectives – plain-clothes gardaí — who will work on the insurance-related fraud. Uniformed gardaí are ring-fenced and deployed for community policing. The intention is that it will not take away from the overt policing.

As we outlined earlier, it is demand-led. In areas such as Cork, there is a dedicated unit to investigate fraud, such is the demand there. In other areas, such is the demand that it is believed there are sufficient resources to investigate without having to dedicate people full time. It varies from case to case and in every Garda division. It varies dependent on the demand.