Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)

Based on the Minister's figures there will be a trebling in the loss of knowledge from the Garda Síochána in the current year. Given that specialist units such as CAB, the new armed unit and so forth needed to be developed, how many gardaí are carrying out day-to-day general policing duties on the ground? In my constituency and in every other constituency we are not seeing a dramatic increase in the number of gardaí on the ground carrying out day-to-day Garda duties as the Minister seems to have in County Louth.

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