Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Many Garda stations were closed by a previous Minister and the local garda has been taken out of our communities. The Minister knows one of the most valuable things we can have in a community is a local community-based garda who knows the people living in that community, who is a friend of that community and its different organisations. There is nothing that garda does not know about his local area. That has in many cases been taken away from us. Will the Minister address this in her new term? I congratulate her on her re-appointment and her elevation to Tánaiste.

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