Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Leahy made the point that in order for community policing to be real and to exist rather than just to be a label, the members of a community need to know where they can get a garda and make contact with him or her without having to go the next town. Community gardaí should be available within a reasonable distance. Given that we have closed so many of the stations in the south, do the witnesses think they can do that as well as they would like with the current resources? How do they envisage that happening physically so that a person in any village can contact a member of the Garda in the event of needing one there and then?