Mr. Pat Leahy:

You were not posing your questions to me, you were posing them to the Commissioner. If you were posing them to me, maybe I would have agreed or disagreed with you.

In terms of the allocation of resources across the city, I have already said it would not be a priority for me today. I cannot get away from the fact, and the Commissioner is right when he said, there is a process that will be undergone from now until probably mid or late January, or in 2018, to determine what it will take to reopen these stations and whether or not, in the short, medium or long term, it will be feasible to put people into Stepaside. I do not want the people of Stepaside to think they are not getting their due regard in terms of policing up there. If it were a thing that Stepaside opened at some stage in 2018 or 2019, and I will not say when, and was being used as an outpost for community policing in advance of some other station being built or otherwise, then I would not see it as being a bad use of resources, but if I were given additional resources today and asked whether they would go to Stepaside, no they would not.