Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What has become apparent from listening to rank-and-file gardaí is the limited engagement they had been afforded, as the Commissioner quite rightly points out. Perhaps these limitations are historic but were not so apparent in good times when there were improvements in conditions. They become much more real for gardaí and their families in difficult times. Bizarrely, we are now able to have face-to-face engagement with all representative bodies, Garda management and the LRC but the regret is that we could not have had it weeks previously.

That leads me to my next point. Many representative associations and public representatives have called for the establishment of a policing commission which would look not just at pay but at the overall structure of the Garda Síochána. Does the Commissioner have a view on that? Does he consider that there would be a benefit in the establishment of a such a body to carry out a review of the entire organisation?