Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

A few years ago, a study of the Garda youth programme proved that it reduced crime by 64%. That was a great success. Is the Commissioner satisfied that Garda resources for engaging with communities, community policing and juvenile liaison schemes are sufficient to prevent crime reaching the stage where officers have to be deployed at the front line against dangerous criminals?

Sinn Féin is of the opinion that we need to ring-fence the resources retrieved by the excellent work of the Criminal Assets Bureau for use in the communities most affected by crime, particularly in drug treatment programmes and community centres, in order to undermine the criminals who took from those communities.