Estimates for Public Services 2025
Dail Éireann — 2025-04-01
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Mairéad Farrell (SF), Galway West

-----so I will move on with other issues of serious lack of funding for policing across Galway. One of the clear issues that was just raised with me again today is the lack of gardaí in Galway. The gardaí who work in Galway do their absolute best and do their utmost, but there is an inability to contact gardaí because there simply are not enough. When we are talking about the amount of funding that we have available across the State, and if we are talking about the likes of Galway, we need to make sure that we are adequately funding the number of gardaí that we have as well. People should easily be able to access gardaí when they need to.

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Sitting date: 2025-04-01