Seanad debates

Thursday, 3 April 2003

The PULSE computer system to which the Minister referred appears to require a long gestation period. The Committee of Public Accounts investigated the significant cost of the programme many years ago. Can we honestly claim it is working effectively? Is it closer to reality to point out that if a crime in which a garda is involved occurs in Dublin today, it will probably not be logged in the PULSE system until tomorrow. There is no immediacy about the system. Given the amount of administration it requires, I doubt if gardaĆ­ are keen to tabulate data on crime. As the PULSE system is confined to certain Garda stations, one also finds that gardaĆ­ have to travel for miles to other stations in order to log the crime details. What level of sophistication does that show?

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