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

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I hope Kildare is included. The aim is to grow the force to 15,000 members by 2021. There are retirements, as well as the intake, to take into account. It is easy to see the intake, but from the outside it is not as easy to evaluate the level of retirements. Is the 15,000 figure achievable? Is the overtime bill likely to go down if the numbers come up?

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