Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We probably should have 2,000, but we have set 1,000 with the hope of making it. I ask Ms McPhillips not to get me started. I am asking a very serious question. If we drop below 700, has she an active role? As the Secretary General of the Department of Justice, is Ms McPhillips concerned that we are not recruiting the numbers we should be? We are already below the European average. It is dropping year on year. Is Ms McPhillips saying that she has no role to play in that?

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