Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 31 March 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána
9:30 am
Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Coming from a rural constituency, I know there are stations in small towns and villages that are on reduced hours and might open only weekly. That is causing some concern in regard to community policing whereby visibility is present only between, perhaps, Tuesday and Thursday. Staff are being redeployed to other, larger areas within the county. How can we free up resources to maintain these stations and allow them to remain open continuously?