Mr. Barry Carey:

It is a divisional boundaries issue. There are boundaries in a rural town. If the nearest Garda station is 22 km away, it will state the investigation of the particular crime will fall to it. It has happened in the past few months and on a regular basis that Garda cars almost pass another Garda station on the way to investigate an incident. If it is a serious road accident, that eliminates the particular process, but for normal investigations it keeps to the boundaries. A detective unit will investigate incidents in its division. I believe a new system is coming on-stream, similar to the Uber or taxi schemes, under which the Garda car nearest to an incident will attend. Currently, boundaries are in issue in every division, particularly if an incident occurs close to the border of the next division. It is, so to speak, a burning problem.