Ms Helen Hall:

It is front and centre to what I would see as our role. We approve the priorities each year. We approve the policing plan. Within policing plans there are quite specific performance indicators, some of which would require the collection of specific data. We have a role there. Every month, we receive reports from the Commissioner as part of our holding the organisation to account for the performance of those.

Returning to the specific question, all the data to which the Deputy refers would be housed within the PULSE system. It would be a matter of getting the appropriate data fields in there. That can take a little time but we have made a change in some of the requirements. For example, hate crime has started to be recorded. We are also demanding, and the Garda are very positive, things in the area of sexual assault. There is a lot of data that can be gathered and we are pressing for that.

I will ask Ms Tumelty to talk about some of the KPIs.