Mr. Drew Harris:

With regard to the resources we have, obviously our recruitment competitions are ongoing. We have our passing out ceremonies every 11 weeks with that further injection of personnel into the organisation. It is then about the distribution of those gardaí. The difference between where we are now and where we were in 2009 is just the growth in the demand on gardaí, particularly around specialisms such as the armed support unit, cybercrime and protective service units. There has been a huge increase in the variety of crimes reported to us and, therefore, our response. The figure of 623 in roads policing, and hopefully increasing that to 700 by end of year, is where we would be over a ten-year average. We can look back to 2009 but it was a very different policing scenario that we were managing then.