Joe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I know there are difficulties, be it people putting camera phones or cameras in the faces of gardaí. It creates a very different dynamic for gardaí, the view of them and their role in society than what they might have had in previous eras. That brings its own difficulties. I have a theme of questions I will try to run through quickly because we are obviously limited by time.

Does the Commissioner feel there has been a big impact from the 2011 pay agreements at the time? Has there been a knock-on impact on the gardaí who might have signed up since that era, relative to the previous cohort who came in? The theme here is retention.