Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I accept the Deputy's point. As he said, he is speaking about a division within An Garda Síochána. Again, in regular communication with An Garda Síochána on the matter we have asked for advice on what is the best structure. We have to take the advice from the Garda Commissioner. In this case he is best placed to assess how we might want to deploy. We do have special traffic police. There is nothing stopping us if An Garda Síochána believes the current structures are not serving the protection of the peace on our public transport system. I would have no problem-----

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