Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan:

That factors in the retirements as well. That is the reason we welcome the Government's commitment to increasing the overall strength of the garda members of the organisation to 15,000. Allowing for an average of 300 retirements per year, that will take time. We very much welcome that by the end of this year we will have 800 new members of An Garda Síochána and we welcome the commitment to that. We cannot distribute everybody at the same time. We have a plan or distribution model where we try to factor in retirements, and I realise it has become an issue in Deputy Catherine Murphy's constituency, crime demands and population demands.