Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 193: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of garda trainees expected to enter the Garda College to commence their training programme for each of the next six months; and if he will compare these figures to the corresponding numbers for 2008 in tabular form. [19208/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy was contained in Parliamentary Question 213 of 30 April 2009. 100 recruits commenced their training in January of this year and another 100 commenced their training in May of this year, after which the moratorium on recruitment in the public service applies. The corresponding figures for 2008 were 270 and 286 respectively.