Mr. Drew Harris:

The old restrictions about geographic location, as opposed to where a person was brought up and where his or her family resided, have gone. However, there are still people who do not want to live in an area where they are so well known. We do not do this to upset people. We have to put our personnel where the demand is. Very often, where gardaí are moving out of Templemore, that allows for a series of consequential transfers to happen. These would apply to people who have had long-standing requests to move, as the Deputy says, from a certain region back to a home region. In effect, this creates some flow in the organisation. We really missed it for the three years that we did not have recruitment or students passing out from Templemore. That really stalled the process and there was a build-up of frustration in the organisation. I will hand over to Ms Cooke who manages this area.