Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

As Mr. Dunne has said, we are very conscious, particularly in light of the Guerin report for example, that we want to make sure a significant part of training and development of individual members of An Garda Síochána is on-the-job training, particularly with the new training programme which the current batch of students is undergoing. These students will come out, fully attested with their powers, and they then go on the job. They will have garda tutors, coaching and mentoring locally in their stations. To make sure the balance is right in each Garda district and division to which student or probation gardaí are going, we factor in proper structure and infrastructures to support them in doing the job they have to do, particularly in terms of their training and development.