Niall Ó Donnghaile (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair and the Commissioner. When the Minister was here last week, she said that her Department and the Department of Justice in the North were carrying out impact assessments in relation to the whole Brexit situation. What is the Garda Síochána's level of input or participation in that process? What bespoke, individual and unique preparations are being taken on board by the Garda to deal with the fallout from Brexit? It is fair to say that with the best will in the world, none of us wants to see any kind of manifestation of a hard or negative Border. Issues like cross-Border crime and agricultural crime have been alluded to in the Commissioner's report. Can the Commissioner offer a rationale for the visible upsurge in Garda checkpoints along the Border in more recent times? Is that a routine situation or is it something that has resulted directly from the recent Brexit vote?