Mr. Justice Rory MacCabe:

On the last part, we would be delighted if members would advocate on our behalf, but I would ask that, when this legislation is passing through both Houses of the Oireachtas, which will happen at some stage in the future, they bear in mind that, when they decide to assign additional responsibilities to GSOC, which the draft legislation proposes, we will need the resources. When this Bill was debated in 2005 by the then Minister for Justice, now Senator Michael McDowell. He indicated that if we were to carry out all the investigations that were required, and he said this in the context that he did not intend to set up a huge quango at the time, he would envisage that the organisation would need between 150 and 200 investigators if it were to operate correctly. At the moment we have about 60 investigators divided over three offices in Dublin, Longford and Cork. It very much depends on the mandate that comes out of this draft legislation. We will make certain assumptions in the course of the transition and Ms Logan will talk about the transition in that context. We are making certain assumptions and working on the basis we will need that. It might seem like a reasonable question to ask how many investigators we need. The reality is we do not know because we do not know how much extra work we are going to be asked to do.