Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have another question linking to that if the Chair will indulge me. In the police service in which the Commissioner formerly served there was an extensive programme of the closing of police stations. There is obviously a very contentious issue around the closing or potential reopening of Garda stations. In the context of refocusing on communities, both in urban and rural areas and in the context of delivering the type of service the Commissioner described, what is his view on the need for additional Garda stations, the locations in which they might be needed, whether we need to radically increase the number of Garda stations and whether that type of community policing that the Commissioner described can be delivered with the Garda station profile that we have at the moment?