Ms Siobhán Toale:

I would be delighted to do so, Deputy. We have a very ambitious data and technology vision and strategy. It is published externally. In order to deliver on this vision and strategy regarding third-party services, we needed to secure the services of various third parties over many years. I will give a sense of the scale of it, which might be helpful. We have about 1,000 resources overall assigned to that function. More than 700 of them are our own and employed by An Garda Síochána and the rest are services delivered by third parties. Some of those third parties deliver specialist skills that we could not possibly aspire to in our roles and some of them provide volume and capacity services, particularly around maintaining policing systems. As we hire, which we are doing, in terms of area specialist skills, we will see a reduction in that over time. It will not be entirely eliminated because we could not rise to some of those specialisations on an ongoing basis in An Garda Síochána. I hope that answers the Deputy's question.