Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have a brief question for the Garda Commissioner about overtime. It is one of the questions I omitted but it is probably the most important in the context of the budget. I am Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, which has oversight of Oberstown. One of the main consumers of overtime is the transfer of children on remand or in detention to courts. When they are in detention it involves An Garda Síochána and when they are on remand it involves Oberstown staff. There has to be a better way of doing that.