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Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: A quick comment before I call Deputy MacSharry.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Just to clarify, the acting Garda Commissioner said that no Garda decision had been made on opening six stations.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. Has a decision been made on one?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Was that a Garda decision or a Government decision or both?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Garda made the decision-----

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: I will go to Deputy MacSharry next. An Garda Síochána was following the process in the programme for Government for reopening Garda stations and had a shortlist of six. Could the acting Garda Commissioner just explain how An Garda Síochána came to the decision to only open one?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Did the acting Garda Commissioner approve the reopening?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: The former Garda Commissioner told us here on the last day that she did not have the report but that the witness, the acting Garda Commissioner, did. Was it the acting Garda Commissioner's decision to reopen the station?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: The decision of An Garda Síochána.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Can the acting Garda Commissioner give us the date of that decision?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will ask for that. Perhaps Mr. Joseph Nugent or somebody could phone to get the date on which An Garda Síochána made the decision to reopen Stepaside. We would like that done now. Perhaps Mr. Nugent could step outside now to make that phone call, because that date is critical. I now call Deputy MacSharry.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: The five.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: The witness says there were four in Dublin and they are still in State possession.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Has the acting Garda Commissioner ascertained when the Garda decided to reopen Stepaside Garda station?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: It was announced by a member of the Government on Tuesday, 13 June. The report was given to the Government on 9 June------

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: ------recommending that Stepaside Garda station alone be reopened. This is the confusion. There were 16 Garda stations mentioned but there was one for-----

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: In the report that was submitted.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: In other words, the report was provided to the Government with more than one Garda station identified as being suitable for early reopening.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: It was a Government decision to pick one station, not a decision of the witness.