Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I had put my hand up because I had tabled a priority question but the sequencing rescheduling today meant I lost out on that priority question which concerned Garda station closures. The president of the Garda Representative Association, speaking on the radio today, clearly linked the closure of 139 Garda stations with the increase in burglaries. He is in a position to know about this. Does the Minister accept his assessment that those station closures have impacted on the rise in burglaries or would she contest it?

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