An Garda Síochána

What this means

• An Garda Síochána is Ireland's national police service, responsible for policing the State and maintaining peace and public order.[source]
• The force is legally required to protect life and property, prevent and detect crime, and safeguard the security of the State including counter-terrorism.[source]
• The current government has committed to recruiting at least 5,000 new Garda members, a plan that is already under way.[source]
• A further promise has been made to expand the Garda training college and look at whether a second college is needed to support recruitment.[source]
• These commitments matter for accountability because the public can track whether recruitment targets and training capacity promises are actually delivered.[source]

Direct impact (4)

• owns statutory mandate
  Preservation of peace and public orderMandate
• owns statutory mandate
  Protection of the security of the StateMandate
• responsible for commitment
  Recruit at least 5,000 new Garda membersCommitment
• responsible for commitment
  Expand the Garda training college and assess a second collegeCommitment

Indirect impact (1)

Two-hop relationships traced through the entity above. Useful for spotting downstream knock-on effects.

• responsible for commitment → delivery owned by officeholder2-hop via pfg-2025-justice-garda-5000
  Jim O'CallaghanOfficeholder