Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is very much an operational matter. I do not think we should put in legislation how or when training must happen. As far as I am concerned, it is a given that where new structures or requirements are in place, people are trained to operate those. It could be said that with CCTV, because there are so many hours of footage, many people are required to trawl though all that. That is why we are looking to use new ways to process that information as quickly as possible. We would then need fewer people who were highly trained and skilled in doing so and information could be accessed much more quickly. Obviously, a lot of people are needed when there are hundreds of thousands of hours of CCTV footage to be trawled through. We are trying to make this quicker and more efficient. The fewer people we need, the fewer we have to train as well, so there is a plus in how we are trying to introduce new ways to process. How training is applied is very much a matter for the Garda Commissioner, but it is set out here that somebody must have relevant training, and that is something that will have to be applied by the Commissioner. The specific type of training is not something we can plug into legislation.