Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----I assure Deputy Broughan that the increased resources available to the Garda Síochána now ensure we have in excess of 150 more gardaí on the streets of Dublin than we had two years ago, and this will continue. Next week we will see a further 200 new gardaí come out of the Garda College in Templemore, which was closed for quite some time but which has now been reopened and resourced. I expect many of these new gardaí will be stationed throughout the city of Dublin. I keep in regular contact with the Garda Commissioner on this issue and, in fact, spoke last week to the deputy Garda commissioner about the issue of resources for the Dublin metropolitan area. I would be happy to engage with Deputy Broughan by way of a more lengthy debate if the time were to permit.

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