Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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29. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the assignment, by division, of the 99 new gardaí whose passing-out ceremony took place on 23 April 2015 in Templemore in County Tipperary; when the next class of recruits will be assigned for the next phase of training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27052/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will be aware that the first intake since 2009 of 100 new recruits entered training at the Garda College, Templemore, on 15 September 2014.As part of Budget 2015, a further intake of 200 recruits in two batches was announced.On 15 December 2014, the first 100 of these batches commenced their training. The remaining 100 entered the college in February this year. The September intake attested as members of the Garda Síochána on 23 April 2015 and further attestations are scheduled to take place in July and September.I have received sanction for two further intakes of 125 Garda recruits later this year. This will bring the number of new recruits to 550 by the end of 2015. On attestation they will be assigned to Garda stations throughout the country by the Garda Commissioner taking account of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure the best possible use is made of these resources.

The following table sets out the distribution of newly attested Gardaí from 23 April 2015 in Garda Divisions around the country.