Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)

Does the Minister accept that when people are older when they enter Garda training, they are at a different stage of their lives than those at the traditional age of entry into the Garda? If somebody has a partner, children and all of that, it will be harder for them to uproot. Is the only option to open another training college in the Dublin area? Some 800 are going into the organisation where 1,400 have retired in one year. The maths can tell us that we will not keep pace or even maintain the numbers in the organisation.