Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will be as concise as I can. I have about five questions and would like to receive a response to each one rather than ask all of them together.

I note what Mr. Harris has said about Border areas and how he is waiting to see what will happen with Brexit and such like before he rolls out the new model. That makes sense and is fair. I come from Killybegs in south-west Donegal. We will be farther away from the police district head office. My experience is that the farther one is from the head office, the less one will see and the less that will actually happen. That may not happen with this process, but my fear is that it will. In my part of County Donegal there are a number of Garda cars with more than 300,000 miles on the clock. That presents a difficulty. At weekends gardaí are left on their own in stations. We have no resources for training on how to deal with cybercrime. Training stopped at level 2 interviewing. There is a no-deal Brexit plan, which is understandable, but members of the force believe there is not one. There are not enough gardaí to keep open the stations which are supposed to be open. How will that change with the new process? In Killybegs there may be a disco on a Saturday night, with perhaps 400 or 500 young people and one garda to police it. That is not safe for the garda, let alone members of the public. It is not acceptable for one garda to operate alone. How will that change under the new plan?