Mr. Drew Harris:

Rather than attributing blame, this is our process. It was our process to examine and fix and that is what we have done. Instead of people passing one stage and then being passed onto the next stage, in effect, once we receive the names of individuals who have passed the interview process, we work through those as quickly as possible. We identify those who can come to the next class intake and we work them through the physical competence, the vetting, the medical assessment and the drugs testing. These are the four elements for which we are directly responsible. We want to make sure we move through them quickly and simultaneously, rather than waiting for one stage to finish for another to start. There are some dedicated people who waited almost two years before they entered the Garda Training College to graduate then in June 2025. While we are glad to see them, we ourselves have identified where we need to do better and have made the revisions already.