Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is no doubt that the increase in Garda numbers is very welcome. In Tubbercurry, a Garda station was built for a sergeant and two gardaí but there are now two sergeants, eight gardaí and two bean gardaí, which is totally unsuitable. There is a building next door to the Garda station that is up for sale. It was used by the national Ceantair Laga Árd-Riachtanais, CLÁR, office which employed 110 people and housed them in two buildings. It is an ideal building. The OPW intends purchasing land to renovate the Garda station to make it more suitable for the staff there. This is an ideal opportunity. The building is being sold by the bank and could be bought at an opportune price to accommodate the badly-needed new Garda station.

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