Mr. Tim Drea:

I do not know the origin of those figures.

There have been more than 30 investigations to date in 2021. The figure was somewhat lower for investigations in 2020. It is important to note that the definition of an investigation changed a few years ago so one will see statistics that were very high a number of years ago. The definition of a special investigation was, for example, an investigation assigned in circumstances where an unauthorised animal remedy was bought or something was seized by Customs and Excise. The Department does not assign investigations on the same basis that it did in the past when there were more staff in the special investigations unit. In 2010 or 2011, there were more staff in the division. There are fewer staff now. Currently, there are eight and the number of prosecutions taken has been static. That is, more or less eight or ten prosecutions for the last ten years. There is a change in the way that we do the work compared with how it was done. There is a deliberate effort by the Department to change that, which is to move from a model that existed 20 to 30 years ago when we had-----