Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The last part is about the allocation of gardaí. The Deputy is right, in that I do not intervene in determining where gardaí go when they come out of Templemore, but I want him to know that, as well as those gardaí, gardaí are allocated to different places around the country after they have been attested and in the force for a period of time. There are transfers that go on. I do not want people to think there are no gardaí going to a particular place because it only got one after the attestation. The Commissioner does not do that. The last thing we should have is a Minister for justice going in saying he or she wants them in his or her constituency.