Dr. T.J. McIntyre:

On the Deputy's point about civilianisation, he is correct. As Mr. Lupton pointed out, civilian analysts in the Garda work on such issues.

There are practical problems in that a lot of the training available is restricted to members of police forces. There is a need to make sure people are affiliated with the police forces before they can get into these training programmes and to contact the training programmes to make sure it is available. It can be done and if I may plug University College Dublin, UCD, I might mention that we run a masters programme there in cyberinvestigations. This can be done and that might be a better use of Garda resources than insisting everything be done by members.