Mr. Justin Kelly:

The 95 will move through those three centres. We will not have that issue where it will just be, for example, two people doing all the interviews. It will be the people from those divisions. They will be investigated in those divisions by those DPSUs I spoke about earlier. The interviewers will come from those divisions. Even as it is now, the way it is around capacity, often we will have interviewers from one area go to another area to do interviews. They move around depending on capacity. We never have the issue where it is the same two people doing everything for one particular area.

On the specialist interviewing, we might touch on this later but the absolute best model for us is joint interviewing with ourselves and Tusla. That is best model for us and what we are working towards. When everything is up and running, that is where we should be. To give an indication around the numbers, in 2023 in Barnahus West, of the 56 I referred to, 43 were Garda interviews and 13 were joint interviews. We need to get to the position where we have 56 joint interviews. Ms Duggan and I are of the absolute same mind on this, as well as all our senior management. For us, it is about getting joint training in place and all the protocols and policy around that. We are moving in the right direction. In September this year, we have a joint training course being undertaken in the Garda College where 15 members of An Garda Síochána will be trained with 15 members of Tusla. That is 30 new people, but we have work to do in that area. That is the direction we are going with it.