Mr. Liam Kidd:

As was the moratorium on recruitment, which went on for a long period. The focus for my branch at the time was to put our full-time Garda resources into more strategic areas, for example security and other areas that are specific to An Garda Síochána. I concentrated available resources there, and at the management and leadership level. Things such as the helpdesk, which is used to fix PCs, for example, were resourced at entry level. There are skilled resources on the ICT side, similar to plumbers and electricians. We are bringing in, as far as possible, skilled resources at entry level to assist us, but they are directed by Garda full-time resources.