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- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I am putting a much more straightforward proposition to the acting Commissioner. If there was a need to reopen Garda stations on a pilot basis or any other basis and if the concern was solely policing need, as the acting Commissioner has said, was it not then a gross intrusion for the Department to set criteria that ought to have been set by the Garda? Who set the criteria for closing the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The acting Commissioner does not know who set the criteria for closing the stations but we know that the criteria for opening them were set by the Department and the Minister, therefore by the political system rather than by any Garda need.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the power reside with the Commissioner now?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The acting Commissioner has the authority to make a decision about which station to reopen.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: He has taken the single and sole decision that Stepaside Garda station is to reopen on the basis of an interim report, work that he is at pains to tell us is not complete.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Who made that decision?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: The Office of the Garda Commissioner has taken that single and sole decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is the acting Commissioner happy to stand over that as the priority decision for reopening of a Garda station in this State?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Only one is over the line. Does Mr. Ó Cualáin as the person in charge, as the acting Commissioner, stand over that decision?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Is Mr. Ó Cualáin saying therefore that Stepaside was more urgent and more in need of attention than any other station of the 70 that he stated? Is he saying that the criteria and the analysis screamed out "reopen Stepaside" and is still mute on the other stations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the Acting Commissioner think that is a credible answer?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Stepaside was more worthy than Rush, for example.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Mary Lou McDonald: Does the acting Commissioner have the documentation? I am picking Rush because there was considerable outcry in north Dublin and acting Commissioner is focusing his remarks on Dublin. Is he prepared to say here that having the documentation and having applied the high level criteria that Stepaside was an obvious priority as against Rush or any other stations?
- 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?