Mr. Drew Harris:

Of course, this is going to require a huge effort and Garda staff. At the same time, Garda staff are fully deployed. When they are doing this task, then, they are not doing other essential work. The human eye does have weaknesses. People get tired and lose concentration. A fleeting image that AI might find might be lost. In these modern times, every individual is almost uniquely dressed in terms of how they appear. Whether they are masked or not, therefore, is, in some ways, irrelevant because we seek sufficient CCTV footage to capture the moment before they were masked and take it forward from there. This is a complex investigation and we wish to expedite it as much as possible.