Ms Paula Hilman:

I thank the Deputy for the question. We have spoken about this before and we meet many of the groups that represent road users about our digital evidence management system, DEMS. That is the system we need that will be behind the portal, so it is not as straightforward as opening the portal. Behind the portal we need the digital evidence management system that will be able to collate what is being put in because we expect, when we go live, that we will have that from multiple sources. At the moment, people can individually report things. I am conscious people write into us saying it is not effective. We still have Traffic Watch. Until we get this up and running, I encourage people to report matters to us and to use Traffic Watch. We are looking at how we align Traffic Watch with our new four regional control centres, because it may take another year, if not slightly longer, to get the portal up and running. We need to keep advertising what we have and using what we have. It is an IT project led by our chief information officer as the head of IT, but he and I talk regularly because of the close interaction with roads and people using the roads. It is used in many other jurisdictions and we know about that. We equally look forward to when it goes live. The Deputy asked about what is preventing it. It is being worked through. It is the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022. That Bill will also enable us to have body-worn cameras and the digital evidence management system. That is what is currently being worked through with our IT colleagues.