Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin:

I can assure the Deputy that I would not make any recommendations or decisions on the opening of Garda stations without a very full and detailed report on what would justify such an opening. It is not just a question of stations that were closed in the past and are now being reopened. Deputy Cassells mentioned his own county and all the other counties bordering the Dublin metropolitan area. We have to keep this under constant review. There will never be a time when we say that this our estate. We are looking at other locations where there have never been stations but where we now feel, based on current evidence, that it would be justified to open one.