Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner

9:00 am

Photo of Niall Ó DonnghaileNiall Ó Donnghaile (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am cautious in my words here because none of us quite knows what is ahead of us in this regard. In terms of that reinforcement of the Border, it has been made clear from any number of Ministers and indeed from the Taoiseach down that the final decision on the Border may not even rest with that North-South or east-west axis and that it may rest entirely elsewhere. I presume the Commissioner will then need to look and prepare, in terms of the additional resources that will be required for any re-manifestation of a EU-UK border. In terms of resource allocation, how does that look to the Commissioner at this stage? Given the sheer amount of Border crossings on this island, I presume that would present quite a difficulty for the Commissioner in the future in terms of allocating both personnel and current and capital resource.

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