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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: Will the Commissioner comment on internal audit resources and the robustness of oversight?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Commissioner for that. Can he tell us the cost of establishing the cybercrime unit, which I know is under way?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: Will the Commissioner give us an approximate cost for the establishment of the - for want of a better description - internal affairs unit which he proposes to establish by the end of the year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: I would appreciate it if the Commissioner comes back to us on those issues. I have a question for deputy Commissioner Twomey. Does the rota system which is on trial in Dublin represent a remarkable improvement on the rigid existing system? How long has it been on trial? Does he see it being rolled out to additional areas of the country or will the existing trial be enough to determine...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: Is this an initiative of Commissioner Harris or was it planned prior to his appointment?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: Is there an additional cost? We are talking about totally new software.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: That cost will be recorded in the accounts for 2017 to 2018.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: The Commissioner had an interesting exchange with Deputy Aylward on automatic number plate recognition. I was going to ask whether existing vehicles would be retrofitted but the Commissioner has answered that question in referencing the reduction in cost relating to new vehicles coming in. To touch upon the CCTV element of what Deputy Aylward referred to in respect of motorways and general...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: I referred earlier to professionalisation - getting officers out from behind desks and onto front-line duties - and to the ongoing recruitment to get us to a workforce of 15,000. Diversification of the force is a very important part of the Commissioner's new role. I do not refer to gender alone, but also to race and background. My constituency is in Dublin metropolitan region north for...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: Of course.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: When the Commissioner is providing various written responses to the committee at a later stage, he might indicate to us how much money the Garda has spent on the diversification of the force. It would be interesting to see what sort of money it is spending.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: I am conscious of time. In asking my final question, which relates to the Garda Commissioner's transfer in a vehicle from Northern Ireland to Garda headquarters, I am by no means criticising the circumstances - I am just seeking information. I understand that the Commissioner was in a PSNI vehicle.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: I would like to ask a genuine question about the frequency of such transfers. Why did the Commissioner not transfer into a Garda vehicle? Were there firearms on board the PSNI vehicle? I presume this was a close protection vehicle and, therefore, it is likely that there were firearms on board. Is that par for the course in the interaction we have with the PSNI? I ask the Commissioner to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: I am asking about a specific instance in which the Commissioner was in transit. Again, I am not criticising or making a pointed remark. I am seeking information. I presume it was a close protection vehicle.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: Therefore, they were armed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: I understand.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: I understand. I thank the Commissioner for his answers. I wish him all the very best in his role.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: I know how challenging it will undoubtedly be.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
Chapter 7 - Management of Overtime Expenditure in An Garda Síochána (9 May 2019)

Alan Farrell: I have a brief question for the Garda Commissioner about overtime. It is one of the questions I omitted but it is probably the most important in the context of the budget. I am Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, which has oversight of Oberstown. One of the main consumers of overtime is the transfer of children on remand or in detention to courts....