Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin
10:00 am
Mr. Noel Waters:
Clearly, if people are committing burglaries it is for the purpose of acquiring goods, and those goods have to be fenced or passed on for the value of them to be realised by the criminal community. Part of the operation will be to try to interrupt that to ensure that in market for stolen goods, the people at that end of it, who might not be the guys who are going out breaking into houses, will be targeted also. I might ask my colleague Mr. O'Sullivan, who is familiar with the detail of what the Garda is planning around this, to discuss that.