Mr. Michael Finn:

The three counties of Cork, Kerry and Limerick make up the south region. There are five Garda divisions in it. Cork has three divisions and Kerry and Limerick make up the other two divisions. The number in the traffic corps would have been proportionately down to 10% or we started off with around a figure of 10% in each region. For example, when I was in Cork we had 60 people in the traffic corps and the total number of gardaí was 600 or more. That was our yardstick when we were increasing the number of staff in the traffic corps, namely, that it would be approximately 10% of the total number.