Mr. Justin Kelly:

The GNECB certainly needs more resources at the moment but we have a plan for that. Therefore, we are working towards that. As Mr. Ryan made reference to earlier, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the allocation of resources and he is absolutely aware of the draws and demands on all the various bureaus we have. As I said earlier, we could put more people into all of our national bureaus but we have to balance that with all our other policing demands. To answer the Deputy's question specifically regarding economic crime, we have a number of competitions under way so we will be putting more resources into this area in the very short term. We are going in the right direction around resources. One problem we have, which is not unique to us, is retention of staff. We have seen this with specialists in various area; not just in the area of economic crime but also in cybercrime. We see that there is a very attractive working environment outside the public service now and unfortunately we sometimes see some of our experts being headhunted, going to private industry, and even going to other arms of the State. That is another challenge we have but I do not think it is unique to us in policing and it is definitely not unique here in Ireland.