Written answers

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Department of Justice, Equality and Defence

Garda Recruitment

9:00 pm

Photo of Niall CollinsNiall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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Question 232: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána will run a recruitment campaign during 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8830/12]

Photo of Alan ShatterAlan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The moratorium on Public Service Recruitment continues to apply to An Garda Síochána and no date has been fixed for future intakes into the Garda College. A decision on when recruitment will re-commence will take into account the rate of retirements in the Garda Síochána and Government targets, set in the context of the agreement with the EU and the IMF, to reduce the numbers of public servants. In addition to this and what will ultimately determine the sustainable level of Garda numbers, and therefore establish when recruitment will recommence, is the level of budgetary provision that can be made for the Force, and the House will be conscious that difficult decisions will continue to have to be made, right across the public sector, in order to bring our public finances back into balance.

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