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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.

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

Brian Stanley: Yes, at any given time.

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

Brian Stanley: You must have a-----

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

Brian Stanley: Is it 3,000 or 4,000, or 5,000?

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

Brian Stanley: The information on the website is not updated.

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

Brian Stanley: That is okay.

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

Brian Stanley: I will raise the issue of the major public order incident and the riots in Dublin, and the measures taken since then in relation to that. I know hindsight is great but it seems things came apart that evening. In terms of An Garda Síochána's structures and units, a special tactics and operations command unit was established in 2017. Of particular concern, and someone showed it to...

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

Brian Stanley: Is that 130 in total within the service?

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

Brian Stanley: Sorry, 1,141.

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

Brian Stanley: There has been a review.

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

Brian Stanley: It did not appear like a lot of them were equipped. Two gardaí were on bicycles in the middle of that situation.

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

Brian Stanley: There is a clip of six or eight on a very wide street trying to stop people going down it. It did not look like they had batons. They were public order gardaí. They were soft caps, I think is the term. You would have needed 26 or 28.

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

Brian Stanley: I brought up the issue of e-scooters at the local joint policing committee meeting last week. I received a reply to a parliamentary question about the legality of the use of e-scooters. I do not have a copy with me, but I did give one to the local superintendent for distribution at the meeting in question. The reply indicated that the use of electric scooters in public places is not legal...

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

Brian Stanley: I will put it like this. I do not want to be unfair to those who use e-scooters to travel to work but drug dealers are also using them. It is not just drug dealers in Dublin; I see them locally as well. Pending the introduction of legislation, which I believe would prohibit their use on footpaths - although I am not au fait with the legislation - why can the approximately 10,000 or 11,000...

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

Brian Stanley: I appreciate that. We shall suspend now for a short break for ten minutes.

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

Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Dillon.

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

Brian Stanley: Deputy, we discussed this earlier.

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

Brian Stanley: Okay. On the issue of staffing, according to the website, a number of assistant commissioner posts are vacant. These include four key regional operational commands, namely, the northern, western, southern and Dublin metropolitan regions. It appears that has been going on for a number of years. To clarify, is the information on the website correct regarding the assistant commissioner posts...

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

Brian Stanley: What is the Commissioner's observation at this point as to what went wrong? What are the three things?

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

Brian Stanley: Mr. Harris said "under investigation". Sometimes investigations, reviews and examinations take a long time. There need to be at least interim findings implemented quickly.