Mr. Michael O'Driscoll:

I probably have had seven or eight incidents in the past three weeks on foot of which gardaí came in to look at the CCTV footage. It was burned for them and they went off with it, but nobody came back to say whether the culprits were found or were spoken to. You never hear anything again unless you are asked to go to court. It dies the minute the gardaí walk out onto the street. You will have shown them something in the hope they will come back and say they know the offenders, have picked them up or are still trying to find out who they are. The gardaí, through their system, can let each other know about incidents. They are always able to identify the people. They might be in a different jurisdiction, but, through the PULSE system, other gardaí can be informed. That is how it should be possible to identify people, even if they are perpetrating petty crimes.