Ms Siobhán Toale:

As I explained to the other Deputy, what we are talking about here are resources. If the Deputy does not mind, I will not call them consultants, but third-party resources. They are used to help us to deliver our operational policing needs and our capital programmes. We do have a long and well established relationship with Accenture, which has been obtained through proper public procurement procedures. I just set that out from the off. Accenture helps us in supporting and developing a range of policing systems and also helps us in relation to security matters. As I mentioned previously, we would prefer to have some more resources ourselves but we do not have them. We have certainly found it hard in certain areas to get the sought-after skill sets.