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

...in the years ahead. Through the operating model, we are driving forward key efficiencies through the standardisation of processes across the organisation and providing more specialist services at local level in areas such as domestic abuse, cybercrime, and combating localised drug dealing. As of today, 12 of our 21 divisions have fully implemented the operating model, with the remaining...

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

Imelda Munster: ...I can name areas in the town where it is creeping back in. Parents are being threatened again, people are looking for money, there are petrol bomb attacks, parents are afraid for their lives and there is open drug dealing. What are the lessons learned? Why would gardaí be withdrawn from an area that went through so much and that needs and was promised a particular focus? We are...

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

...had in mind. I was also reflecting that there is a difference in the experience of crime depending on where people might live in a town or city. The weight of crime, particularly that relating to drug dealing, will fall in areas that might be described as being deprived or disadvantaged. This is an extra layer or lever of disadvantage that is applied to these communities through...

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

Paul McAuliffe: ...love to see a methodology. Population is a factor, as is the level of crime. It should not be based on historic numbers in a station. The report states that between 2011 and 2020 the number of drugs offences doubled. This means gardaí on the ground have to do double the work and double the processing but they do not have double the numbers.

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

Mr. Drew Harris: I would point to the formation of divisional drugs teams and how successful they have been against street dealers and medium-size dealers who are big enough fish locally.

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

Paul McAuliffe: Divisional drugs teams are contained in the overall number of gardaí in a division. Is that true?

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

Paul McAuliffe: .... They can be removed and destroyed, so they will not be going back out on the streets. I ask the Commissioner to keep going with that work. E-scooters are being used as a mode of distribution by drugs gangs. I ask that An Garda Síochána also takes on board the provisions in the legislation that prevent underage children using e-scooters, e-scooters travelling above the...

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

...a responsibility for our PEM system, that is, our property and evidence management system. In that system we have literally thousands of pieces of property and exhibits, and a huge amount of cash, drugs and firearms. It is absolutely essential that we keep the integrity of that system. We put that system in place at huge expense and linked it to the PULSE system for very good reasons...

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

Ms Yvonne Cooke: They came through our selection processes. The Garda has physical competence, medical and drug-testing requirements, to name just a few. There are still 291 active candidates from that particular competition. When we move to 2023, there were 4,973 applicants for the competition. The number that came through to the Garda stages of that selection process was 1,047.

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

...three to four years. I would point to the equipment and the productivity that brings for the roads policing members and other members. We have an improved roadside breath test device, an improved drug test device for the roadside, speed detection equipment and number plate recognition.

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

Alan Kelly: ...provide in tabular form the number of road traffic deaths that occurred in that division from 2020 to the end of 2023 and the number of cases which were prosecuted from 2020 to 2023 that related to drink-driving, drug-driving, mobile phone use and dangerous driving? I would like to correlate this across. The Commissioner will see where I am coming from. It is quite obvious. It seems to...

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...