The Garda Commissioner and the Minister for Justice have dismissed any suggestion of an IRA mole in the gardaí.
Speaking in Athlone as a €60m scheme to refurbish garda stations was launched, Minister Frances Fitzgerald said she had no information about any mole.
Ms Fitzgerald added there was no evidence for such a claim.
Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan said a review of the IRA had been carried out as part of the assessment and nothing had emerged to suggest the existence of a mole.
Ms O'Sullivan rejected the suggestion that the border area is a zone that the gardaí could not police.
She also said the Provisional IRA army council does not meet in this jurisdiction in the form that it once did, in other words she said it does not meet to conduct military operations
Earlier, Ms O'Sullivan said any suggestion that An Garda Síochána would turn a blind eye to the activities of the Provisional IRA or its associates is both unfounded and offensive.
Nóirín O'Sullivan said gardaí regard with the utmost seriousness any threat posed by the IRA but assessments of the organisation are complicated by the fact that IRA members are also part of a wider movement which includes Sinn Féin.
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has compared the region to a twilight zone, but the scale of criminality in the border counties has also led to claims that gardaí are turning a blind eye to the activities of the Provisional IRA.
The Garda Commissioner has rejected the claims, saying the Provisional IRA waged a campaign of terror on these islands for decades and that members of the gardaí were among those who paid with their lives in murders.
Ms O’Sullivan also said it was never the position of An Garda Síochána that the IRA had disbanded and complex issues continue to surround its existence.
She also said that while there was no evidence there has been any IRA recruitment in recent years, the gardaí would regard with the utmost seriousness any threat posed by the IRA.
