Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Presumably the then Minister for Justice and Equality had oversight of that, which flies in the face of the fact that the current Minister, Deputy Flanagan, is very clear, and I think accurate, in asserting as recently as 20 September that the Garda Commissioner is primarily responsible for those decisions, such as reopening stations. Was the setting of those criteria therefore by the Department not a real intrusion on the authority of the Garda Commissioner of the day?