Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Aggressive Begging from a Public Order Perspective: Discussion
10:10 am
Mr. Adrian Cummins:
I wish to clarify another point. On the organisation of it, there is no hierarchy with, for example, one person organising four or five from a business perspective. However, from an organisational point of view an aggressive beggar might have his own patch. So he is going from one business to another, doing his route. These businesses have a density of customers or visitors outside their premises. They go in and 20 minutes later another person will come around to the same patch again. That is the organisational level of it. If we give the Garda the powers to stop that activity, we will solve the problem.