Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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Question 480: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to further increase Garda numbers to 15,000 by 2010. [19306/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The accelerated intake of 1,100 Garda recruits per annum is fully on course to meet the recruitment target of 15,000 by 2010. As of 30 April 2008, the latest date for which figures are readily available, there were 13,874 attested members of An Garda Síochána with more than 1,000 recruits in training.