Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:30 am

Mr. Drew Harris:

An element of that is full-time and an element relates to the regional aspect, the 220. In this regard, the training is ongoing. The staff we trained last year are providing a local service in the form of triage. We have triage and advanced investigation where it is engaged. We are investing in both the front line in terms of people who are skilled in doing this work and in the national bureau and regional centres in terms of more specialist capability, once we triage the examinations.