Tom Brabazon (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail)

How can An Garda Síochána chase? There is a policy that An Garda Síochána do not generally chase these youths in a vehicle. They do not have the way to shunt people off vehicles the way the London Metropolitan Police does. If there is no other way of catching them by hot pursuit or chasing them, how are these perpetrators supposed to be identified? If they put on a face mask, they are not identifiable so there are no consequences. We cannot have a situation on our streets where there are people engaged in criminal activity and there are no consequences. That is why I was asking about the alternatives.