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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: Some of those candidates may work through.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: For people who resign or move on from the force, are exit interviews carried out?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: Are there exit interviews?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: What is the main reason they give for leaving?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: What are the three most common?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is the new pension regime.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: I will ask the Commissioner about the non-compliant procurement in 2022. There was €10.8 million for goods and services. There were 18 cases to the value of €3.8 million for towing services. I presume that mainly relates to towing vehicles off motorways and so on. Is that right? What is that for?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: Does the figure include towing vehicles that have broken down on a motorway? How does that work? Does it go to tender?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: Which divisions are those?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: Which divisions are those?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: It would be fair to say that a number of businesses in a particular county or division are providing towing or lift services with breakdown trucks and that.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is particularly the case for lighter vehicles such as cars, jeeps and smaller vans. There are only two outstanding divisions. When does the Commissioner hope to have the process complete? When will all those go out to full procurement?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: Just over €4 million has been reported as the cost for translation. What efforts are being made to get that into competitive procurement?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: There are a number of other costs that I will not list. There were some medical costs. There were 13 cases to a value of €1.35 million for a variety of things. What are we talking about there? Are we talking about repairs to Garda cars? What are we talking about there in respect of those 13 other cases?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: There are a number of providers of services for vehicles, including for fleet maintenance and all of that. At this point, is all of that tendered? If the Garda wants new tyres, does it go to one company? I am just picking that as an example. Does one company supply the Garda? Was that tendered in the past couple of years?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: I am asking about the servicing of vehicles. As the person over finance, is Ms Bourke not able to state today that servicing is tendered out?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: I understand that for some specialist services, the Garda cannot tender because there is only one provider. We see cases involving €10 million or €11 million and there are multiple suppliers. Not everybody may want to do it. They may be too busy or unable to get mechanics, for example, in the case of the motor trade, and they may not be in a position to provide the services....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: I understand. Perhaps the Garda Commissioner could come back to us with what is outstanding and has not been competitively tendered. I thank the Commissioner for that.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: I will go back to staffing and budgets. The overall pay budget in 2022 was €1.76 billion. The breakdown of that was €1.32 billion for pay for gardaí within the service. There was then €404 million for staff pensions. That seems a high amount. How many pensioners are there at any given time? Maybe Ms Cooke will have the numbers.