Gardaí have clarified that a ban on overtime notified to officers yesterday will only remain in place until Sunday night and not the end of the year. Gardaí have clarified that a ban on overtime notified to officers yesterday will only remain in place until Sunday night and not the end of the year. A communication to chief superintendents in the Dublin area yesterday said overtime was being cancelled as the Garda for 2017 had been exhausted. "From that day overtime will then be available to regional, division and district officers for policing delivery within the overtime budget allocated to them," a Garda statement said. Earlier, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar insisted that funding for Garda overtime in the run up to Christmas was never in question.

Source: Irish Independent November 29, 2017 12:13 UTC