Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge that there have been irregularities in Garda finances. We saw it very evidently in the financial affairs of the training college in Templemore and we have seen it on a number of occasions in the non-collection of fees and fines. We see it in irregularities in how contracts are tendered for and awarded. We are in the process of implementing a significant programme of Garda reform. It involves, for example, the establishment of the Policing Authority which holds the Garda to account in public. It also involves greater civilianisation of the organisation by bringing people into it who are experts in human resources, finance and all corporate governance functions. It involves the Commission on the Future of Policing which is now doing its work.

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