Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

All the maladministration that has come to the surface does not just have a cost in terms of public confidence, it has a financial cost as well. The figure for this year is just in excess of €7 million, which is utterly shocking against a backdrop of services that could badly do with that money. In accounting terms, this does not reflect the lost hours as a result of that wrongdoing. With regard to the fixed charge notice issue, it is not just the compensation that is paid to the person, which we can quantify, it is the lost Garda hours and resources. Is that factored in separately or is it just absorbed by a garda coming into work and happening to be involved in a compensation case during normal hours? It is a loss of his or her working hours.