Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Mr. Ronan Clogher:

No, we have significant issues with the operating model and how it is actually working. It does not work, particular around the superintendents not being in charge of districts. Substantial change is needed. The AGSI is saying that we should take the good parts that are working, put them together and develop a new model of policing. The AGSI looks at the operating model and we have been taking about this for four years now. Nobody is listening; I think I said that three times here today. An Garda Síochána did a survey in May 2024 and we do not have the results of it. We got a short briefing on it, but it is extremely negative. The question arises as to what actions we are taking out of the findings of that survey last May. We have been going on with this. For any company or business in the world, if all the staff were saying something was not working, every other business would listen.

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