Ms Yvonne Cooke:

There are still gardaí doing administrative work, and all gardaí will have aspects of administrative work. I think the Deputy is speaking to the best use of our resources in terms of the reassignment programme. We explored where individuals will need to use their policing powers or policing experience. If that is not the case, those are identified as roles that could be suitably informed by a Garda staff, or civilian as otherwise referred to. We engaged in a significant programme and up to 900 gardaí were reassigned. We have faced some challenges, though, with respect to our Garda staff recruitment pipeline, which relates to a question that was asked earlier. Every effort has been made to recruit as many Garda staff as possible in the next 12 months because we intend doing a further reassignment programme, looking further into the gardaí-----