Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Finn:

I am aware of the reconsolidation of the traffic corps in County Meath. It was scattered all over the place and for the moment we have brought it back into one centre. We are putting extra people into traffic policing there, but we need a level of supervision and having the traffic corps scattered all over the place was probably not the most effective way to achieve this. I am aware, from talking to the chief superintendent in County Meath, that he has consolidated the traffic corps in one location. However, as we are providing for more supervision and more people there, he will have a bigger traffic corps by the end of the year.