Mr. Colin Fee:

We believe they would far exceed it. I would like to add to some of the comments made on reporting. It got to a stage where we were not reporting a lot of the thefts. The managers were not reporting a lot of the thefts because there was no action, and it was pointless. Earlier this year, we mandated that every single theft, incident and assault had to be reported, and we have recorded them. We also get the number of the garda and the PULSE identification number. We are analysing it at the moment. We are at it a little over six months now. The response is not great.

I will give the Deputy an example. There was one case where we had a guy and again, it is the same people. There are a handful of people who are creating or causing 50% or 60% of the crime. We had one particular guy who shoplifted us 20 times. We kept reporting it. There were five or six bench warrants out for his arrest because he did not show up in court. He was arrested and taken by two gardaí to a court many miles outside Dundalk. He appeared in front of the judge and the judge gave him bail. That night, he came back in and shoplifted. My staff asked why they were bothering reporting it. To be fair to the gardaí, that was not their fault. The gardaí did what they had to do. He got as far as the court, and he was straight back out.