Gardaí process 5,500 vetting applications for healthcare workers in three weeks

Liz Canavan, Assistant Secretary-General of the Department of an Taoiseach, outlined where the new healthcare workers have been assigned.

Extra staff are needed at the frontlines.File picture.

Gardaí have processed 5,500 garda vetting applications for healthcare workers over the past three weeks.

The applications have a turnaround time of just one or two days to get extra staff to the frontlines.