Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I did another one last year. Mr. Harris referred to the sophistication of his deployment of staff, but it does not look very even. The east coast is significantly lower in terms of the ratio of personnel to population compared with the rest of the country, with the exception of County Kerry. Counties such as Meath and Kildare always feature at the lower end of the ratio and have done so for a long time. Those happen to be two of the counties that are growing more quickly than others. Fingal is probably lost a little bit lost in the Dublin metropolitan area. Mr. Harris referred to this being a sophisticated allocation of resources. I have looked at the policing plans every year and compared them before the census and after the census. I do not see the kind of change I would expect in the context of the deployment of personnel. It is not all about population. There are socioeconomic issues and crime issues and I completely accept that. This picture does not scream that out to me, however. Does Mr. Harris accept there is an issue here that needs to be addressed?