Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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70. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost of policing the Banagher horse fair in County Offaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40253/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will appreciate that the Garda Commissioner, as accounting officer for An Garda Síochána, has responsibility for the allocation of Garda resources and I, as Minister, have no direct role in this matter.

I am advised by the Garda authorities that the cost of deploying adequate resources over the course of the two-day event to prevent and detect crime, including public disorder and anti-social type behaviour, and to maintain public safety is approximately €10,000.