Green Party Minister Eamon Ryan is set to get cycling protection from members of the gardai.
All Cabinet ministers recently received garda protection drivers on foot of a security recommendation from Garda Commissioner Drew Harris. However, Mr Ryan does not use a ministerial car - so his protection officer will be on a bike, the Irish Independent reports.
The Dublin Bay South TD said: “There was a decision made by An Garda Siochana that we all now (as ministers in Cabinet) will have protection officers. That’s their call in terms of security.
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"I suppose they will have to be flexible in my case because I will still be cycling. But that’s something I have to work on with An Garda Síochána, to make sure it works for them as well as for me.”
It is understood Mr Ryan will not always have a cycling officers when cycling and occasionally a garda car would be deployed. When he is cycling around Dublin, he will occasionally have cycling protection.
Mr Ryan said: “I have had a very good record in the past in having worked with the gardaí, and I always found them really supportive. Not necessarily (will it be a bike). It will depend on the circumstances."
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