Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Mr. Drew Harris:

No, we are using the annual period. I refer to last September because that is when I arrived. July and August were good months in terms of the expenditure and bringing it under control. We have managed on our rosters from September onwards to hit €6.5 million to €6.7 million, which gives us an outturn of approximately €90 million. That is our target. However, that is very tight, given the pressures that we face.

It is a matter of where we are spending our money, whether we have to spend it there, what our deployment profile should be where we have to go, and how can we redress that?

There are other factors. I have talked about the RDMS and how it can give us information. Since the current process is very much paper based, it is very retrospective, so I do not have a daily or weekly view of the overtime expenditure for last week or-----

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