Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Reopening of Garda Stations: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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On that basis, and on the basis the Commissioner's predecessor could have ignored the criteria but chose not to, will the Commissioner not at this stage revisit it, lift the phone to the Secretary General of the Department and say they need to look at this again, state he has listened to his assistant commissioner, who has priorities, and that he wants to meet those priorities? As I asked earlier, could the Commissioner not have the leadership to say nothing has been done yet other than a few reports, and this plan needs to be adjusted in the interest of the delivery of the optimum level of resources in the community in Dublin?