Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin:

The first one was to ensure there was a rural, urban and Dublin dimension to the pilot scheme. Stations were closed throughout the country in all different categories. Having due regard to population and crime trends, limiting the choice of station to those that remained in State ownership, which goes back to a previous point I was going to finish on from the point of view of ensuring it would not be a buy-back of State property, consideration of those stations that could be opened with least delay, and the impact on the delivery of policing services generally of any particular reopening formed the high-level criteria. Of course, very valuable input can be got, which the Deputy acknowledged, from local Garda management and the critical part it would play in respect of calling out what it sees as being the priorities for its areas. That is the piece of work that Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll set about. Some aspects of that were very detailed and needed a lot of work to drill down into trends, especially in crime and population. We had the benefit of a recent census of population which informed his deliberations regarding what was eventually included in the report. It is of use to the entire committee to hear that. This is the position I had in July regarding criteria. I have no problem with sharing the criteria because I know that this was-----