Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will take the Senator's three questions. He asked whether the 16 stations that have been given for community use all went through the same process where consideration was given first to their disposal on the open market. I will check this out as most of this happened before my appointment, but my understanding is that they did. The commissioners make an evaluation as to whether there is a financial benefit to the Exchequer in disposing of the properties at this time before considering community use, but I will get a follow up note on that for Senator Heffernan.

His second question related to the cost of maintaining closed Garda stations. The cost is €136,000 and that is the only figure I have, but I will see if it is possible to break it down further in terms of individual stations and I will come back to him on that point.