Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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186. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the full year cost of increasing the Garda Reserve by 300. [26319/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Garda authorities that members of the Garda Reserve as part of their training programme spend 15 days in attendance at the Garda College, including the graduation ceremony, and 40 hours assigned to a Garda Station. Following attestation, the annual allowance payable to Reserve members as a contribution towards their expenses is set at €1,000 per annum. In addition, the uniform cost per Reserve member is in the region of €1,300.

I am further advised that the cost of training both recruits and members of the Reserve is subsumed into the overall training costs of the Garda College and is not easily identifiable. However, the total cost of running the Garda College in 2015 was approximately €19m, which includes the salary costs of all College personnel.