Mr. Drew Harris:

I will take on some of these elements and my colleagues will take on the others. I am very conscious that the integrity of the organisation is wrapped up with the quality of our statistics. People should be assured that what we are saying around how well we are doing is absolutely correct.

We are still using printer-and-ink processes. We have not moved to digitise the command and control system or our investigation management system. Those upgrades and that knowledge will help us a lot with our processes. We have our own Garda information service centre, GISC. That is constantly working to ensure that our records are correct. We are not sitting back and doing nothing.

Regarding our statistics, we have to be in a position where we can give considerable assurance on our processes. I do not envisage being in that position until we have further digitised calls from the public and how they are responded to, and thereby ensure stringent quality assurance on how matters are resolved and reported. There is still considerable work to do there.

In respect of the press office, there will still be a central hub sitting with me in the Phoenix Park, but we will have a press officer with the assistant commissioner at each regional level. As we adapt to social media, we want to make sure that each of the divisions, the local areas and the local community policing teams have a social media presence. We wish to make ourselves available to the public by that means. It is a good means of sharing information and working with others. Today at the National Ploughing Championships, we are launching a scheme around rural safety. That has a social media element to help share information-----