Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Question 106: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda patrol cars withdrawn since June 2011 as a result of reaching the 300km limit. [28715/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The provision and allocation of Garda resources, including transport, is a matter for the Garda Commissioner in the context of his operational priorities.

I am advised by the Garda authorities that Garda vehicles are retired from the fleet for a variety of reasons including where vehicles are considered beyond economic repair, as a result of accidents and where vehicles have reached an odometer reading of 300,000 kilometres. I am further informed that it is not possible to isolate the number of vehicles which have been decommissioned upon reaching 300,000 kilometres, as the extraction of such data would require a disproportionate use of Garda time and resources.

However, the Garda authorities have advised that the total number of marked and unmarked Garda patrol cars decommissioned since June 2011 is 235.