asked the Minister for Justice if, in view of the increasing IRA influence and other criminal elements in local authority housing estates in Dundalk, he will consider establishing a police station in Muirhevnamore and Cox's Demesne in Dundalk.
Written Answers. - Proposed Dundalk Garda Station.
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The establishment and maintenance of a new Garda station involves a high financial cost and the manning of additional stations tends to absorb Garda manpower, which, in the view of the Garda authorities, could be used to better effect on outdoor patrol duties. For these reasons the Garda authorities consider that the provision of separate stations to serve the two areas in question would not be warranted and that the present arrangement, whereby they are policed from the central Dundalk station, makes the most efficient use of available Garda resources.
The Garda authorities will continue to keep the policing needs of these areas under special review.