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

I believe these will be a game-changer. In the short space of time in which we have seen them rolled out, the positive feedback has been exceptional. I have had no negative feedback. There have been no incidences that I have been told about or made aware of where cameras have not worked or have been defective. They are very different, however. Some of them can actually show the picture and the person can see themselves in it while others do not have that visibility and they use different technology. Obviously, the proof of concept has been hugely successful in helping to identify what will work and what will not.

On the overall figures, in the last station I visited in Waterford, 700 people had been trained up in that instance and it is similar across the other three areas. Obviously, we want perhaps not all 14,000 members but certainly those who are out on the beat wearing them. Deputies will probably have seen members even here in the Oireachtas with body cameras in the last week alone. People talk about wanting visibility. It is comforting for members of the public, retailers and people who are going about their daily lives to see these body cameras because they know the gardaí now have an accurate reflection of what is happening if an incident were to arise.

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