Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual breakdown of the number of gardaí recruited from 2005 to date in 2015. [32528/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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This Government is committed to the ongoing recruitment of trainee Gardaí, and to this end the first intake since 2009 of new recruits commenced training at the Garda College, Templemore, in September of last year. To date there has been four intakes of Garda Trainees into the Garda College, giving a total intake of 400. A further 150 recruits will enter college by year end, bringing total recruitment of Garda Trainees to 550. So far 290 of the new Garda Trainees have attested as members of An Garda Síochána. On attestation, new Probationer Gardaí are assigned to Garda stations throughout the country by the Garda Commissioner, where they are assigned to mainstream uniform policing duties. I am assured by Garda management that the needs of all Garda Divisions are fully considered when determining the allocation of newly attested Gardaí.

I have been informed by the Garda Commissioner that the number of Garda recruited since 2005 was 3,923. The table below sets out the number who have been recruited by year since 2005.

Garda Recruitment by Year