Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime Report: Discussion
11:00 am
Mr. Tony Hickey:
I am not au fait with what exactly is happening at present but I know anecdotally that there are units of plain clothes officers in the city centre and they round up some of these people occasionally. They probably do not catch all of them. It is like everything else, it is a small town and these people will become known to the officers operating there and they move around. I am not sure about what is happening on Talbot Street now; some people say cannabis has been sold there on occasions. I have been there on and off-----