Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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I say this in all sincerity and I am not trying to catch anyone out. When we have a community policing model, fairness and proportionality are key. In my judgment, as someone who lives in the community in question and has friends who sat beside me in school who are working in that whole zone, this is totally disproportionate. For the committee, the issue is the cost to the taxpayer. For parliamentarians more widely, the issue is the endangerment of people's lives because of the volume of prosecutions that have not gone through and the knock-on effect of that.

I ask the Garda Commissioner to provide the cost of investigations by the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, NBCI, into Operation Bath and Operation Modulus from 2020 to 2023. I want to see if this is a good use of resources. Has anyone ever been disciplined as part of the investigations into financial mismanagement which were broadly brought forward in this room by Mr. John Barrett? Has anyone been disciplined with regard to what happened there?