Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

An Garda Síochána is made up of sworn gardaí and Garda staff. We anticipate that both will increase in number this year. We have provided funding for more than 1,000 gardaí to be recruited this year. This will be enough to cover retirements and resignations, and will result in an increase in the total number of gardaí. While training was disrupted as a consequence of the restrictions related to Covid, the total number of gardaí who completed or began training last year was almost 500. We expect to see some of them coming through in the next few months.

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