Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The Commissioner mentioned something about monitoring the number of calls coming in and where they are coming from. There are places where people do not bother calling. They do not bother calling because they do not expect to get a service. That is not to be critical of the gardaí who are there. They can only do what they can do. I have a lot of engagement with the gardaí in my local area and I am very complimentary about them. There is just not enough of them. If the Garda are measuring things such as calls, it also has to measure public attitudes as to whether people expect those calls to be followed up. People will obviously not bother calling if they think it is not likely to be responded to.