Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Mr. Michael Finn:

There is a limit to the number of people that we can bring into the Garda College annually. At the moment, somewhere between 800 and 900 get into the organisation each year. If we can continue or expand that, it would help us accelerate the numbers we bring into the traffic corps. We are operating around that 10% figure. It is what we have focused on with regard to resources that we are going to put into the traffic corps. If we can get more people in or other factors come into play, we would certainly be open to it and I would welcome getting more people into the traffic corps. I will be there at the management table looking for more.