Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

We are always keen on recruitment and obviously that has been prioritised over the last seven or eight years. The Garda is the envy of its counterparts worldwide as a growing service, both with respect to sworn members and also civilians. There is lots more expertise in the Garda staff cohort as well. The growth of that is really important. Digital and IT is an important area from our point of view to get the best value, to ensure the staff of An Garda Síochána have the best tools available to them and to combat the growth in ever more sophisticated cybercrime, etc., but also just ordinary crime. Every element of crime has a digital element to it now and gardaí need the tools to combat that.