Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North-West, Fianna Fail)

The local policing forums that sat under the joint policing committees essentially provided intelligence and input as regards those local issues. I will raise an issue of concern. The next meeting of the Dublin city north-west area joint policing committee is to be held on 30 June. The chairperson of that committee has been informed that An Garda Síochána will not answer strategic questions or make presentations on statistics. That is disappointing. I do not expect the Commissioner to be aware of that but I ask him to reflect on it and to go back to the appropriate two divisions to deal with the issue. While we are waiting for the CSPs, particularly in areas like Ballymun and Finglas that have significant issues even though there is good collaboration across different community groups, it is important that An Garda Síochána is not seen to be unco-operative, which I have to say it never has been. I just wanted to flag that.

I will turn to the issue of cash on hand or the storage of cash. How much cash is held in storage around the country?