Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and it is being monitored by an outside body. The first report regarding the implementation of that reform has already been published by the Policing Authority. I do not believe there is anyone in this House who does not have trust in the work done by Josephine Feehily and the Policing Authority. We set up the Policing Authority. We made those appointments to ensure there would be the kind of oversight to ensure that these issues emerged and that the Garda would be held publicly accountable instead of doing things in private. That is what I am committed to, namely, public accountability, procedures in place to ensure oversight, acting on the recommendations that come to me and the Government and ensuring that budgetary provision is made so that instead of people not having the management they need, not having the civilian staff in place and not having recruitment, that is all now in place. That is what this Government is doing, that is what the previous Government did and that is what the commitment is - to support members of An Garda Síochána to go about their daily work, to give them the resources to do so, and absolutely to have accountability and to call them to task when there is not accountability.

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