Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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274. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Síochána stations in County Cavan and in County Monaghan in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4376/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Garda Commissioner is responsible for the detailed allocation of resources and for the day to day management of An Garda Síochána. The Deputy should be aware of two relatively recent initiatives regarding the Garda station network. The Garda Síochána 2008 Policing Plan set out realigned Garda Divisional boundaries to make them coterminous with local authority boundaries.

Secondly, the Garda District and Station Rationalisation Programme was implemented in An Garda Síochána during 2012 and 2013. The objective of the review was to identify opportunities to introduce strategic reforms to enhance service delivery, increase efficiency and streamline practices within the organisation. The review concluded that a revised district and station network commensurate with the organisations resource base would best meet public demand.

Consequently, I have been informed by the Garda Commissioner that the number of Garda Síochána stations in the Cavan/Monaghan Garda Division, on the 31 December in each of the past ten years, was as set out in the following table.

Number of Stations in Cavan/Monaghan 2006-2015