Mr. Drew Harris:

It is achievable. Logic suggests the overtime bill should come down, but practice has shown that members create overtime because they detect offences and go to court. We have briefing time built in, something about which we have talked. Inevitably, operational members create overtime. It is the frictional overtime needed to operate as a business. I need to look at where else we can cut overtime, where people can be redeployed and how we can change our operational profile. That is a task for me in how I prioritise expenditure.

I have just been provided with figures for Kildare. There has been an increase of 63 members between 2010 and 2019.