From the national DNA data bank point of view, I can give you pretty well exact costs. I believe copies of our annual report have probably been provided to the members of the committee. There's always a table included in this with regard to the costing; so for instance, in 2007-08 it was $2.627 million.
Now those costs are direct costs. It doesn't include additional costs such as Mr. Cory and others have mentioned: the security of the building, the maintenance, and everything else that goes on. Those are the bare-bones costs and each year they go up. For instance, in 2006-07 it was $2.6 million, whereas projecting the additional samples for next year, it will be a little bit more. So those costs are readily available.
I think where it may be often confusing is that the national data bank is a prescribed protocol where the samples are essentially controlled. They're controlled from the point of view of the samples collected from an offender in a designated condition, brought in, processed. It's very efficient, the automation works extremely well, and what we've been doing over the last few years is developing the automation technologies that would be potentially useful for crime scene samples.
I think there's ongoing review right now of the costs you requested from our colleagues in Public Safety Canada. So there are actually two reports out in the past. I believe they're in the process of doing a report of that nature, which may be forthcoming, with the cost and also the capacity issue of what the future might be.