Mr. Drew Harris:

There is still great interest in joining An Garda Síochána. We need to do a better job of talking about career progression, specialisation, the variety of the work and how meaningful the work is. We should talk about the difficulties but also the rewards of undertaking a career in An Garda Síochána. We are in a very competitive marketplace, and as I have set out already, we need to be very slick around our recruitment process and attracting the right talent.

Standing in Templemore, the vast majority of the students I see have third level education, have had good jobs and have then decided to come to An Garda Síochána. We get a high calibre of student and we want to maintain that as well.