Last ditch efforts at finding a resolution have failed.
The Garda Representatives Association have released a list of its units that will not be part of Friday’s industrial action, as cover is needed.
The strike will definitely go ahead after last ditch attempts to avert it failed.
There will be “a skeletal service to protect the security of the State, prevent and detect serious crime and preserve vital evidence.”
Certain members of An Garda Siochána are being asked to respond positively to a request to cover roles in the following…
- Emergency Response Unit [ERU]
- Regional Support Units [RSU]
- Garda Technical Bureau [Mapping, Fingerprints, Ballistics and Photographic Sections]
- Critical Incident/Major Emergency response capabilities
- Communications Rooms
- Protection & Escort Personnel/Units
- National Surveillance Unit
- Static Protection Posts
- Special Detective Unit
- Intelligence Sections
- Witness Security Programme Unit
- VIP protection
- Garda Drugs Organised Crime Bureau
- Special Dedicated Embassy Patrols
- Immigration Units
- Forensic Collision Investigators
- Attend to prosecutions in court
- Student and Probationer Gardaí
While 95% of the GRA membership expressed their preference for industrial action, the body insisted that the safety of the citizens of the state was of utmost importance.
“The government failed to make effective contingency plans despite five weeks’ warning of withdrawal of services by gardaí,” said GRA General Secretary Pat Ennis.
“The recent negotiation process was unnecessarily protracted. The GRA has engaged throughout in a responsible problem-solving manner. This government has perilously gambled with public safety in its treatment of our members.
“History shows that Gardaí put their lives on the line to protect the public. To this end, we are doing everything we can to ensure that the risk to the public is contained and minimised.”
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