Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

Where is the blockage? The figures I have show that when the Commissioner came on board, there were around 13,900 gardaí. We are now at 14,200, which is significantly less than at the beginning of Covid. The Commissioner is acknowledging essentially that there is a problem with the process from when someone joins to him or her becoming formalised as a garda. Whose fault is it that we have those types of delays?