Dr. Gurchand Singh:

To deal with another issue, we have to remember that there was a whole set of rationales put together to identify what Garda stations were to be closed, one of which being crime levels in the area. We closed Garda stations where practically no incidents were recorded. When we closed them, we did a follow-up analysis to see if the closure impacted on crime levels in the area. We must remember that, where an incident occurs in one of those areas, a call is still made to the next local station. The closure of the Garda station had no impact on crime levels. There was no difference. That is not to say there were not some other impacts in terms of concerns and so forth. However, the closure of those particular stations in that round had no impact on crime.