Rank-and-file officers accuse government of 'building garda reform plan on quicksand'

Probationary gardaí in Templemore. Image: Eamonn Farrell Probationary gardaí in Templemore. Image: Eamonn Farrell Updated 1 hour ago

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe earlier announced the garda budget will be increased by €81 million and there will be an addition of 700 new recruits to the force next year. Donohoe said civilian staff will also allow more gardaí to return to frontline policing. New garda offices will be built in Dublin to replace the Dublin Metropolitan Region headquarters at Harcourt Square. There will also be further investment put into garda IT to advance their “digital strategy”, the minister said.

Commenting on the Budget measures announced today, Garda Representative Association President Jim Mulligan said the additional funding will have to be spread so thinly it is difficult to see how it can meet all the plans that have been announced for policing reform.

Garda are scum disband now

Pity they don’t use a budget update those uniforms .. they are so outdated

That'd be about right announcing budgets that have already been spent. While announcing benefits that won't come into affect until after the next budget. 🙄 Wake up electorate please

I would like ask why our proud Army has been forgotten. I am an Army Veteran (Lebanon) and my Father a Jadotoville Hero (RIP) my Grandads fought in the Civil War (different sides).....

Trump may want to pay it back out of the tens of millions tax he'll collect on Kerry Gold butter exports to the US.

€15 million? For what

How much money was spent supplying security for visiting Eurocrats in 2019?

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