Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána

Mr. Drew Harris:

Whenever we buy any system which is, in effect, off-the-shelf, we always have to adapt it to the peculiarities of the operating environment. For example, the allowances and the enhanced payments for Saturday and Sunday-type working have to be built into our rostering system. Peculiarities of this jurisdiction also have to be built into any system. Inevitably, we buy systems from America and Canada, predominantly, and we have to adapt them to our operating environment. That is the same for any law enforcement agency in any jurisdiction. The Deputy asked specific questions about costs and projected costs. I ask that I be allowed to come back to the committee to give an explanation of those because I do not have that detail.

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