Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I did not hear the answer to the question asked by Senator Mark Daly about evaluation and who would be evaluating the plan. In writing up the plan, the policing and community safety authority will have a major role to play. Will it have a role to play in the evaluation? It provides in section 63(3)(c) that after the first plan, there will be a review included in all future plans. Who will carry out that review? Will the police be policing the police or will independent eyes look at it? What will be the role of the policing and community safety authority in the different regions in respect of this evaluation? How is it proposed to correlate that evaluation and assessment geographically? An evaluation of a plan in a rural area will differ immensely from feedback you might get from an urban area. The last thing we want is a higgledy-piggledy plan that is "plan A" for here, "plan B" for somewhere else and "plan C" for another place. How is it proposed to be evaluated? How do we expect or hope to correlate the regional evaluations in order that we can have a national policing plan that will work across the regions?