Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State said there were lower levels of recruitment than expected in 2023. At what stage of the year was it realised that the target of 1,000 additional members was not going to be met? We had a stream of senior Ministers come into the Dáil to say that there was going to be 1,000, even up to July. The numbers did not seem to stack up, to me. There was a saving in funding. At what stage did the Government realise that there would not be 1,000 additional members going through Templemore?