Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Of 120 members in Portlaoise Garda station, a town in which the highest maximum security prison in the State is located, there is only one bullet-proof vest available. Is this not an indictment of a Government that has spun the most sophisticated web of high rhetoric, hyperbole and nonsense? The central remit of the Government in terms of crime is that the people would be safe on the streets and in their homes, but neither has happened and that is an indictment of the whole Government, particularly of he who speaks most about what should be done but fails to do it.

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