Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 September 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner

9:00 am

Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin:

Yes. We had 700-plus stations at that time. That station closure programme concluded with 139 being closed across the State. Of those 139, I think 60 were sold by the OPW. When we look at the criteria based on the programme for Government commitment to opening six stations on a pilot basis, part of that issue was asking the Policing Authority, in conjunction with the Garda Inspectorate, to look at our district boundaries and how they were drawn with the possibility that this work may inform or in some way help them come to conclusions regarding how we distribute our resources around the State.

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