Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 July 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 8 - Management of Outsourced Safety Cameras

10:40 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would not make this point but I will put it to Ms O'Sullivan. If the numbers were cut by another 1,000 and the Garda just did things more efficiently, would it be as good a force then as it is today? I do not understand how the Garda can lose 1,000 members and its service is improving. Was it not well managed up to now? Could further better management, rostering and so forth compensate for another reduction? I would not make that point, but it is a logical follow-up to what Ms O'Sullivan is saying. Where is the point below which one should not go?

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