Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What I should also have said earlier was the Minister for Justice met Garda representative bodies today and the Garda Commissioner is meeting them tomorrow. This is an issue we need to resolve quickly because it is impacting on Garda morale and authority. However, it is important to say that the Westmanstown roster is the only roster that has the collective agreement of all Garda associations and operated between March 2012 and March 2020 before the outbreak of Covid-19. We are still operating the Garda roster put in place for Covid, which is not sustainable into the future. What is needed here is a negotiation that can result in an agreed new roster that gardaí can support. The machinery of the State is available for that in the form of the Workplace Relations Commission, if that is helpful, but let us wait and see where the meeting between the Commissioner and the representative bodies goes tomorrow.

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