Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:30 am

Mr. Drew Harris:

The Chair is correct; obviously, I am limited as to what I can say. We are also a security service as well as a policing service and, therefore, there have always been resources dedicated towards the overall security of the State, which includes dealing with the threat of espionage. Those resources are in place. I had to look to see what extra we need to be doing at this particularly difficult time, given the war in Ukraine. That is ongoing. As one can see from our accounts, we have been given additional resources over the past five or six years. Part of that investment has been within the security service portion of An Garda Síochána.

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