Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 58: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the rate of resignation of female members from An Garda Síochána over the past five years. [46620/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Garda Commissioner that the number of female members of An Garda Síochána who have resigned from the force and the number of total resignations from the force in each of the past five years and including this year to the 30 November 2008, the latest date for which figures are readily available, is as set out in the following table.

I have also been informed by the Commissioner that the number of female members of the force, as of the 30 November 2008, was 3,133, which represents 21.7% of the total strength of the force.