Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

The Deputy may want to be disruptive but the facts are that the numbers in the Garda Síochána have increased from 10,800 when the Deputy's party left office, and it had fallen at that stage from when his party had taken office, to more than 12,300 now and it will be 14,000 in December 2006, which is 13 months away.

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