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- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Ó Cualáin has.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Therefore the acting Commissioner is saying that Stepaside was more worthy and needy than for example Rush?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is that what his data told him?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the interim report only deal with the Stepaside Garda station?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: So, the Stepaside Garda station is still part of a report that is interim in nature and yet a definitive decision has been taken on that Garda station and that station alone?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: And Mr. Ó Cualáin stands over that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: As Deputy Burke established and the Chairman has confirmed, it is a reserved function for the Garda Síochána to make that decision, which brings us back to the point I made earlier that the political system - in this case the Cabinet or members thereof - intruded on a decision that rightfully should have been taken by the Garda. The Garda is the body to set criteria and decide...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I seek a couple of brief clarifications so I am absolutely clear. The interim report that went to the Government stated that An Garda Síochána recommends the reopening of Stepaside Garda station.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Garda had taken a decision to do that and that will be reflected in the interim report when we see it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Garda had not advanced a similar position for any other Garda station.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Did the Garda say that it also believed that Rush Garda station should be reopened?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Garda said that Rush should be opened.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Cabinet cherry-picked that interim report and gave Stepaside the green light but not Rush. It cherry-picked the interim report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am just trying to establish the facts. The acting Garda Commissioner is confirming that the interim report that recommended the reopening of Stepaside Garda station also recommended the reopening of Rush Garda station.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: What other Garda stations did it recommend reopening?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is it the acting Garda Commissioner's view that Stepaside, from a policing and public safety perspective, was more worthy of being opened than Rush?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Ought to be.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: What is the acting Garda Commissioner's view of the Cabinet cherry-picking decisions that are rightfully his? It is the prerogative of his office.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: May I comment on it? I think it is a disgrace that political cherry-picking of Garda decisions happens. I asked the acting Garda Commissioner earlier about the setting of the high-level criteria and he confirmed that they were equally politically set by the Department. I also asked him earlier about the criteria for closing the stations down and who set those criteria and he could not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: He is clearly waiting for Government instruction.