Elevating the debate over apportioning blame

Elevate: Raise or lift (something) to a higher position.

Throughout it all over the last five years, frontline gardaí have had to get up every day, dust themselves down, and face the public.

As the controversies and scandals buffeted the organisation, they patrolled the streets, responded to danger, witnessed violence and trauma and, in some cases, risked life and limb.