Mr. Drew Harris:

Recruitment of Garda staff is strong. We still have approximately 150 vacancies to fill this year, but we are focused on the roles Garda staff can do. It is an oversimplification to say administration. We want them to have roles, which in effect are operational support. We have seen this in our control rooms where they have effectively displaced gardaí onto the ground or into operational duties. They are performing call handler- and call taker-type functions. We want to extend that further and look at what other roles they might take on, which would be operational support, effectively freeing up warranted members.