Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The acting Commissioner had the function of allocating the resources. We are told that all the time.

It is a big problem. In my area, which is also Deputy Cassells's area, there is the lowest ratio of gardaí to population. I call the policing plan that is published every year a work of fiction because although there is the idea that criteria change all time, it does not consider demographic shifts or crime rates. Here we are considering not only the opening of stations but criteria that determine where resources will be allocated.