An Garda Síochána
Dail Éireann — 2024-09-26
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Darren O'Rourke (SF), Meath East

The senior Minister will be well familiar with the fact that my county has the lowest number of gardaí per head of population. It is not just the lowest number but the lowest by far. The difference between the lowest and the highest is double, so there are twice as many gardaí per head of population in Waterford at the top of the list as there is in Meath at the bottom of the list. That is not fair, reasonable or equitable by any measure. What is the Minister of State doing to address it? Does he recognise it as an iniquity or inequality? Is he going to talk to the Garda Commissioner about the resource allocation model, how many recruits are coming out of Templemore and where they are going? It is a real unfairness within the system that needs to be addressed.

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Sitting date: 2024-09-26