Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It does indeed. It does sound complicated and obviously the kind of work for which a huge amount of training is needed. Given that technology very often moves faster than every Department, than politics and than everything else, I fully appreciate the job of work the witnesses have there.

This is a bit speculation but following the collapse of the retrial of Sean FitzPatrick, there was some criticism of the resourcing and the structure of the office. Again I respect that the witnesses might not want to comment on this, but have they a view on whether resources could have been provided in advance to ensure that this did not happen? Commentators have said, and I would tend to agree with them, that the under-resourcing was almost Government policy, and that a concerted effort was made not to give the office the resources that it needed. If it had had the resources, do the witnesses believe that the trial would have collapsed in that way?