Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Capacity at Templemore and the question of supervision of new recruits going out have to be taken into account. There were times in the past when the kind of supervision that is essential was not what it should have been. Now we are hearing about people further up the line who did not have that kind of experience. That is extremely important. The cost increases up the line in terms of increments. It increases very substantially once they move from training to being members of An Garda Síochána.