Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Roughly 3,000 on hand, all told. I am sure there are more questions to be asked there but I have many other things I need to get to.

I have a question about international protection, the growth in staffing in particular and the impact that has had on processing times. The Minister, Deputy Harris, spoke on this in the Dáil Chamber on Tuesday. We have gone from 206 staff to 299 and want to get to 400. Doubling of staff involves both a financial outlay and a huge human resources outlay, in that I assume all of those staff need to be trained and brought up to speed. The first obvious question is whether we are putting enough resources into upskilling and training to get them on board as quickly as possible. That is probably a simple yes-no answer.