Ms Anne Marie McMahon:

An Garda Síochána is aware of our requirement to be more diverse and in that context we have developed a diversity and inclusion strategy. We also have an internal diversity strategy. We have an extensive outreach to new communities and not so new communities in an effort to build relations, to provide the required service and to identify if there are particular nuances to the service that particular communities may require. That is part of our day-to-day business in our community policing, outreach and efforts to build up good relations with the whole spectrum that makes up any community we work in. That is ongoing and important work and a lot of energy is going into that. There are many strands to our diversity outreach.