Latest: Minister focused on negocation after AGSI votes to join Garda strike

Update 6.08pm: The president The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI), Antoinette Cunningham, has said that members "overwhelmingly" backed the strike action today.

Update 6.08pm: Tanaiste and Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerals says that she is focused on negociation after the AGSI approved strike action set for November today.

The AGSI will stage industrial action on November 4, 11, 18 and 25 and will refuse to operate the force's official database PULSE on October 21 and 28.