Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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1461. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of serving Gardaí and the number who had retired or resigned within the previous five years who were convicted of a crime, in each of the past ten years, by rank, by Garda divisions, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44644/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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The vast majority of members of An Garda Síochána serve the organisation and the State with integrity each and every day of their careers. We are rightly proud of the job they do often under difficult circumstances.

Of course for the public to have absolute confidence in a police service, they must have faith that when the law is broken by those who are responsible for upholding it, the same treatment will apply to those who wear the uniform as those who don’t.

Disciplinary matters within An Garda Síochána are of course a matter for the Garda Commissioner. Further, the conduct of court proceedings is a matter for the courts.

To be of assistance I have sought an update and I am advised by the Garda authorities that court outcomes are not maintained in relation to Gardaí who retire or resign prior to a court conviction.

Since April 2024 figures in relation to court convictions of serving Gardaí who are subject to suspension from duty at the time of the conviction are recorded.

Table 1 below outlines the reasons for the conclusion of a member’s suspension following a court conviction since April 2024.

Table 2 below breaks this data down further into the rank of the members concerned since April 2024.

Table 1 – Reason the suspension of a Garda ended following a court Conviction.

Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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1462. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints received against members of An Garda Síochána in the past five years, by garda division, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44645/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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An Garda Síochána has a proud tradition in serving communities and protecting the State with over 18,000 Garda members, civilians and reserve.

An Garda Síochána are guided by three simple Policing Principles which state that policing services must be provided:

• Independent and impartially
• In a manner that respects human rights
• In a manner that supports the proper and effective administration of justice.

Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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1463. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí suspended from duty in each of the past five years, by Garda division, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44646/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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The below table, provided to me by the Garda authorities, details the number of Gardaí suspended in tabular form, per Garda Region and National Units between 2020 and 2024 and as of 7 August 2025. I am advised that as suspension data is subject to ongoing change and regularly fluctuates, the statistics below relate to the number of individuals newly suspended within the given year. The data is presented per Garda Region and National Units so that individual members concerned are not identifiable due to the low number of suspensions within any relevant Division / Section.