Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Pringle. I promise the members I will not do this on any of the other Votes but I have just two follow-up questions. Is there a correlation between the number of Garda staff recruited and the potential for a lessening, if you will, of the workload of individual members of An Garda Síochána? Would that perhaps be a better question for the Commissioner?

In regard to the capital building, I appreciate the Office of Public Works, OPW, is responsible for some of the buildings An Garda Síochána has throughout the country, so are there two separate budgets in terms of capital investment in those buildings? Is there a maintenance budget, or whatever it is called? Is that between An Garda Síochána and the OPW or is it just the OPW? Will the Minister provide clarity on that?