Garda recruitment and promotions
Flanagan challenged the Minister about recruitment after the announcement of sergeant promotions, saying recruitment would not proceed; the Chair ruled the matter outside the question, and Barrett said resulting jobs would not be filled until 1991.
Since the Minister has intimated that there will be a number of promotions, would he say whether that means that a recent circular issued by the Garda applications section to the effect that recruits will not be——
Comment on this
I thought the Deputy had a relevant question on the subject matter of Question No. 16; clearly he has not.
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Thousands of applications forms were sent to young people but there will be no recruitment.