Mr. Noel Waters:

Ultimately, that is a matter for the Commissioner, but we are advised that an enormous amount of work has been done in terms of profiling where the crimes are, when they are happening and who is doing them. The Garda has a high-end research capacity, what it calls hot spots, in terms of doing an analysis of when, where, how and by whom the crimes are committed. It is targeting those operations rather than waiting for things to happen and hearing about them. The aim is to anticipate them on the basis of the information it has.