Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

It has to be the subject of a Government decision, as far as I am aware, when we deploy abroad. Obviously, it is a bilateral arrangement between police forces. In recent years, including preceding the pandemic, we found it useful to have a very small number of gardaí deployed to holiday areas in France to assist tourists with crime incidents and vice versa. I met the French ambassador recently and the French authorities find it very useful. There is a reciprocal arrangement.