Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

I will try to assist the Deputy. The direction that went out on the Dublin metropolitan region is a Garda operational matter, so that was a matter for the relevant assistant commissioner discussing it with his chiefs. The Minister for Justice and Equality appeared before the Select Committee to discuss the Estimates for 2017 and Vote 20 - the supplementary estimate for An Garda Síochána. In the normal course of events there are eight Votes in the Justice group of Vote - one of which is the Garda Vote. It is our practice while the financial shared services in Killarney co-ordinates across the group and acts as a kind of group finance oversight at director level, normally in the course of any discussion with the committee, in order to be of assistance to the Houses, we ask the relevant official in the Vote holding body to come to assist with any level of detail that might arise.