Preservation of peace and public order

What this means

• An Garda Síochána is the national police service of Ireland, responsible for keeping the peace and maintaining public order across the State.[source]
• Its legal duties include protecting the lives and property of people in Ireland, as well as preventing and detecting crime.[source]
• These responsibilities are set out in the Garda Síochána Act 2005, which gives the organisation its core policing mandate in law.[source]
• There are 2 implementing commitments linked to this mandate, meaning specific actions are being tracked to ensure these duties are carried out.[source]
• This mandate matters for accountability because it defines what An Garda Síochána is legally required to do and provides a basis for measuring its performance.[source]

Direct impact (3)

• duty held by body
  An Garda SíochánaBody
• implements mandate via commitment
  Recruit at least 5,000 new Garda membersCommitment
• implements mandate via commitment
  Expand the Garda training college and assess a second collegeCommitment

Indirect impact (2)

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

• duty held by body → owns statutory mandate2-hop via garda
  Protection of the security of the StateMandate
• implements mandate via commitment → delivery owned by officeholder2-hop via pfg-2025-justice-garda-5000
  Jim O'CallaghanOfficeholder