Real cost of Garda security operation at Orwell Road much higher with inclusion of regular rostered hours
Russian embassy on Orwell Road: A permanent Garda presence was deployed in March last year after a vehicle was reversed into the embassy gates shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. Photograph: Alan BetsonThe Garda operation outside the Russian embassy in south Dublin has incurred overtime expenditure of more than €200,000 since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began.
For most of the last 14 months, the main purpose of the Garda operation has been to provide a visible presence as well as opening and closing a security barrier as the embassy’s staff enter and exit in their cars. Because the barrier is just outside the compound, responsibility for it falls to the Garda rather than the Russians, who have their own security inside the compound.
Costings obtained after a Freedom of Information request by The Irish Times reveal overtime spending – including weekend and night-duty allowances – for the Garda’s embassy operation was €212,000 from March 2023 to last month.
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