Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is essential that we take this more seriously. The reality is that releasing people to attend courses does not deliver improved leadership at local level. Leadership at local level is about leaders having the tools to critically examine what they are doing, to learn from best examples elsewhere, to bring a team with them to make changes, to monitor whether that is happening and to give resources to those who are ambitious. I do not see that happening in our Garda force yet. We need to look very seriously at how it can be done. It is relatively cheap in resource terms compared to many of the other challenges faced by the force.

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