Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 June 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

2:00 am

Mr. Aonghus O'Connor:

The reason for the overspend, as the Deputy might remember, was that on 23 November 2023, there were the Dublin riots and maybe a day or two thereafter, the then Minister for Justice allocated €4.4 million of additional moneys for vehicles. Some of that allocation was made in 2023 and some in 2024. That, in the main, explains the overspend on the vehicle side.

In relation to Rosslare, as the Comptroller and Auditor General called out in the opening statement, that is an issue that affects a number of Votes. It is not us exclusively. We have taken direction from the centre and are in compliance with the advice given to us. If there is a question on that, it is a very technical accounting question and I would not be in a position to answer it at this moment.