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

I am putting a much more straightforward proposition to the acting Commissioner. If there was a need to reopen Garda stations on a pilot basis or any other basis and if the concern was solely policing need, as the acting Commissioner has said, was it not then a gross intrusion for the Department to set criteria that ought to have been set by the Garda? Who set the criteria for closing the stations?