Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The JPCs will be developing into community safety partnerships. I appreciate that not everybody will welcome that change. They have served a fantastic purpose to date. They have worked very well but we need to have that multi-agency approach where it is not just the local authorities. Regarding the reserve, unfortunately, the reason it will be the latter half of next year is that we are starting a new Garda recruitment campaign. The concern is that if the two were to happen at the same time, they would be pulling from the same pool. I take what the Deputy is saying about it being too far ahead.

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