Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These are precisely the issues I intend to raise with the Acting Garda Commissioner. There is no doubt the scale of the policing challenge is enormous when one considers all of the electronic storage devices which are seized by gardaí in contemporary investigations. They complete an average of 450 cases per year. If one looks at what is selling in the world of technology and computers, the fact that storage potential is getting much larger and the amount of work emerging in the area, it becomes clear that there are resource implications. While I am not in a position today to discuss any specific cases, I take the points raised by the Deputy. I will meet the assistant Garda commissioner who is looking at the strategic realignment of resources. I am happy to update the Deputy on the outcome of this. I will examine a number of cases and ascertain precisely what is happening on them at present.

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