Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Policing Matters: Garda Commissioner

2:00 pm

Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

I do not have the number off the top of my head but we can get the number of applications for transfers. One of the frustrations for members of An Garda Síochána who have been assigned away from home is looking to get closer to home for a variety of reasons, including domestic reasons. With the input of the new students, it will make it much easier. There is a mechanism for prioritising transfers for individual members. We work very closely with the representative associations on that. The associations will alert us to any individual cases.