Mr. Aonghus O'Connor:

I thank the Deputy for the question. There is a number of stocks, as will be appreciated. There are high-value Garda specific stocks in relation to the armoury. There are ICT stocks and then there are commodity stocks, as we call it. Each of those are managed individually. We do have an issue insofar as we do not have an IT system that is fully what you would expect for a stock system. The migration to the NSSO will bring us an inventory model and, for the first time, An Garda Síochána will have that inventory model, and we will work with the NSSO to build that out. At the moment , however, it is very manual and very Excel based.