Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the other matter, Deputy Verona Murphy will appreciate the deployment of Garda resources is a matter for the Garda Commissioner rather than the Government but it is the Government's job to make sure there are more gardaí, and we are doing that. We have provided funding for an additional 1,000 to be recruited this year. That does not mean an extra 1,000 gardaí because there will be retirements, but it will allow for several hundred additional gardaí. I hope that will include additional gardaí for Wexford and for the Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB, as I accept it needs them.

On the issue of transfers, the Deputy was not asking me to do this but the era when Ministers get involved in Garda transfers has, I think, long since passed.

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