Sheila Terry (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 3:

In page 7, between lines 8 and 9 to insert the following:

"(2) Each joint investigation team to be established under this Act shall be costed by the Competent Authority prior to establishment.".

The Minister of State may have answered this amendment in his previous response. I have tabled it because I believe it would be appropriate that each investigation be costed before it was established, in the same way as Garda drugs operations are costed. I do not see the reason the same system cannot be in put in place in this regard. It would make more sense and we would have some idea of how much an investigation would cost before we entered what could possibly be a lengthy process. I would like to hear the Minister of State's response.