Almost 99% of Garda Representative Association members - it was almost unanimous - voted no confidence in the Garda Commissioner, yet he is still stubbornly going ahead with the extra roster, supported by the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee. The Garda Commissioner is meeting the Garda representative bodies tomorrow and I hope we will be able to make some progress on the roster issue leading from those meetings. What I should also have said earlier was the Minister for Justice met Garda representative bodies today and the Garda Commissioner is meeting them tomorrow.
As I said earlier, the Commissioner is meeting with Garda representative bodies tomorrow to try to make progress on the roster issue. That is a matter for the Garda Commissioner and the team around him in terms of the leadership of An Garda Síochána.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Mattie McGrath and Michael Healy-Rae.
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