John Curran
Question:408 Mr. Curran asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the Exchequer funding allocated to the emergency response unit in 2005. [12033/05]
View answerTuesday, 19 April 2005
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The 2005 budget for the Garda Síochána is over €1.1 billion and the provisional operational budget allocated to the emergency response unit for 2005 amounts to approximately €2.5 million. Certain expenditure items, such as the provision of motor vehicles, information technology and other support services, are accounted for on a centralised national basis. In addition, the salary costs of the emergency response unit are accounted for centrally within the Garda Vote and are not reflected in the above figure of €2.5 million. Consequently, it is not possible to provide budget details on an individual Garda unit basis for those additional nationally provided services .