Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 September 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner

9:00 am

Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin:

Let me go back to the criteria that were set and to the work carried out by Assistant Garda Commissioner O'Driscoll. Of the 70-plus stations left for consideration, only four were in the Dublin area. By and large, most of the stations closed were on the western seaboard. As one came closer to the east, the numbers fell. There were only four in the wider Dublin area that could be considered for reopening, on the basis that the buildings were still in State ownership.