Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Annual Policing Plan 2015: Garda Commissioner
2:30 pm
Seán Kenny (Dublin North East, Labour) | Oireachtas source
Can I ask a supplementary question about the Luas? Mr. Twomey mentioned the talks he was having with the operators of the Luas. There is a particular problem on the red line from The Point to Tallaght and particularly during the tourist season when people are coming and going by train from Heuston Station, a quite serious level of pickpocketing takes place on that Luas. The Luas lends itself to that because it is so easy to hop on and hop off whereas with other types of public transport one has to enter through a gate or get on through a door of a bus or something so there is a particular vulnerability there. Are there any particular strategies to deal with that kind of pickpocketing?
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