Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2023-05-17
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Simon Harris (FG), Wicklow

I fully agree that the Garda Reserve has an important role to play in supplementing Garda visibility in our communities. We want to get to at least 15,000 gardaí and we want to grow those numbers even further. The benefit of having another layer of people who can support communities is clear for all to see. The first priority was to open the new garda recruitment campaign. Almost 5,000 people said they would like to be a garda. We are going through that process now and it is my intention that later this year, probably towards the end of the year, we will open a new recruitment campaign for the Garda Reserve.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-17