Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Ronan Clogher:
No, I am not au fait with that information, but it is a substantial cost. There were more than 500 protests last year in Dublin. I think I head that figure but I could be corrected on that. There are associated costs. When we send gardaí to protests, there is also a cost on the backfill, that is, those who replace those gardaí in whatever stations they came from, if they were in the public order unit. There is also a cost to train the public order unit and keep its members upskilled. It is a substantial cost but we do not have the figures on it.