Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)

——that we expect the highest standards but are prepared to provide the best support to ensure those high standards can be achieved and maintained. I listened to the Minister's response and I take on board the fact that he accepted there is a need for the best resources and technology, whether it be from the point of view of communications or otherwise, and that they must be made available to the Garda Síochána. The message should go from this House on a unanimous basis that we are prepared to do that and that the exercise in which we are involved is not only a bashing exercise or a demanding exercise. Having said that, there are some demands and I have no hesitation in demanding the highest standards from the Garda Síochána. However, if that message is coupled with a commitment to providing the best resources and equipment to the Garda Síochána to enable its members to achieve those high standards and to have best practice, I will be satisfied.

However, as I understand the point of not recording every such aspiration in legislation, I will not press the amendment at this stage.

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