Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

As I stated in my reply, there were 14,571 garda in May 2010, which is an increase on the 14,426 garda in the force at the same time last year, which I believe answers the Deputy's question. If 776 garda retired and the figures increased by more than 100, obviously there were more garda taken on than retired during the past year.

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