Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin:

Priorities change all the time. I am well aware of that and the position I hold. Crime rates go up, populations change and demands increase or decrease based on all of this. We are constantly taking account of all of this in the way we deploy our resources. I expect every assistant commissioner to keep a close eye on what their priorities are in his or her region. Assistant Commissioner Leahy has pointed to his priorities today. If he were to be given some recruits in the morning to assign, he would be assigning them to stations other than Stepaside because Stepaside is still not open. It still has not been reopened. It will take a considerable period of time to assess what needs to be done to the building. In that time, I am confident, with the increasing level of resources made available to the organisation, with the recruitment campaign in place for the past two and a half years and which continues apace, that those resources will be coming onstream to allow all of the demands to be met.

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