Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have two brief supplementaries. We always talk about Garda numbers as if they are the be-all and end-all of policing, but I am more interested in Garda hours and how we utilise them. Even I have had great difficulty in trying to find out not how many personnel are dedicated to investigating burglaries or sex crimes but how many Garda hours are spent in each area. We would get a better idea of whether resources are being utilised to the best of our ability if we stopped talking about numbers and spoke more about the hours. In particular, rostering is an issue.

We spoke a lot about cultural change but none of us touched on whistleblowers within the force. Has there been a cultural change within the force to be more accepting of people who wish to highlight deficiencies within the operation of or even incidences of corruption within the force? Has that cultural change been significant over recent years?