Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will address Ceist Uimh. 6. Will the Minister outline the number of new recruits assigned to the Dublin north division and the Dublin west division, as of 30 September 2017, since recruitment resumed in 2014? The reason is that in the north Dublin and west Dublin area, especially the north Dublin area, we have lost one in five gardaí in the past six years and the pace of replacement has not kept up at all with that. Community policing, an issue I will address also, has been decimated in those areas, with the part closure of Garda stations. I am interested in hearing from the Minister the number of new recruits that have been assigned to those divisions.

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