Mr. Fred McBride:

There was a reliance on post and fax. The Deputy is correct. The data commissioner has carried out a report and we are getting rid of faxes. Now the electronic communication is done through a portal if a specific referral is required. Email communication about many other things - more general business - is carried out all the time. We communicate by email with An Garda Síochána all the time. Our national childcare information system, NCCIS, will not link in with the PULSE system used by An Garda Síochána at the moment. In the future it will link in with that system, but further work must be done to make that happen.