Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin:

Stepaside station is not ready to be opened and we do not know when it can be reopened based on the physical condition of the building and what works need to be done. However, for all the stations approved for the next stage, when the Office of Public Works, OPW, will come in and work on each of the buildings, that will dictate the pace that moves at. From the day those six stations closed, the overall human resource requirement is under 50 gardaí. Some are very small rural stations which require only one or two, or one sergeant and four gardaí. They are spread across five of our six regions. On that basis, it would be within the gift of the local assistant commissioner with the chief superintendents on the basis of an improving resource allocation-----