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. John Twomey:
No. We would not have our people trained in the delivery of that. We would be reliant on the medical services. While our people are trained in some basic first aid, they are not trained in anything more specific. Some of our firearms units and national units would have some further enhanced training but as a general rule the principle is that when we come across a medical condition we engage the services of the HSE as they are the professionals in that particular area. While we have some basic core understanding, we rely on the professionals.
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