Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin:

The criteria are the same for policing and are what we apply, all other things being equal. Once Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll had applied the criteria that were presented to the Commissioner of the day, he distilled what stations were available to the organisation to be reopened. It is then that we would have applied similar criteria that would have been applied in the closing down of stations. Footfall, for example, was an issue, as were crime rates and population when stations were closed. These were also central to reopening.