Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 July 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras

10:40 am

Mr. Cyril Dunne:

The second phase commenced in March 2013 and that is focused on the implementation of intelligence management and a system to make sure we have absolute oversight and control on that. Again, that is to support specialist units in An Garda Síochána. It looks at capture, analysis and particularly at dissemination of intelligence, because intelligence is no good unless it is made available for use. That second phase also involves the implementation of document and content management or the automation of the paper, for want of a better way of putting it. That element within the system is currently in what we call functional design and we expect it to go live before the end of this year. There is good progress on it. Obviously, all of the developments in these areas are subject to funding and we manage the delivery in the best way we can. We believe it is progressing well.