Mr. Justice Rory MacCabe:

One of the questions the Deputy asked was, effectively, whether we could give a guesstimate as to what types of resources we would need. As I mentioned, when GSOC was being debated in the context of the 2005 Bill that ultimately set it up, the then Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform indicated he believed that if every investigation were to be carried out by GSOC, the commission would require between 150 and 250 investigators.

The Bill the committee will eventually consider in the context of the reform of policing, which will be major legislation, will propose that every investigation will commence with GSOC. It is probably not unrealistic to imagine, therefore, that there will need to be an increase in the number of investigators of the order envisaged by the then Minister. Obviously, there would then have to be a commensurate increase in the number of support staff for the investigators. Given we do not know what way the legislation will pan out in the course of our business analysis between now and the time of the passage of the Bill, we may then be in a better position to be more definite about the requirements.