Would the Minister not agree that, apart entirely from the conditions of service, the appalling conditions of some of the Garda stations throughout the country require immediate attention. The longer this is put back, the longer will we have those dirty, smelly Garda Stations where people have to go to do business and where the gardaí have to work and live most of their lives. Would the Minister not agree that something should be done immediately about this?

It is fair to say, in reply to Deputy Tully, that not enough money was spent by this Government, the Deputy's Government or all the governments before that, on the repair of Garda barracks throughout the country.

Would the Minister not agree that something should be done immediately about that as a matter of urgency?

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I think it is fair to say, in reply to Deputy Tully, that I am concerned with the problem he has raised. I know a number of stations in towns and villages and a number here in the city as well where conditions are not as we would want them to be. I am trying to organise some sort of crash programme to do something about them because I believe that if they were improved and repaired the morale of the members working from these stations would be so much improved.