Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, why hundreds of gardaí are still deployed in Rossport, County Mayo, to quash a peaceful protest while drug barons run free in Dublin, Limerick and elsewhere, drugs pour into our airports due to a lack of gardaí and this country and County Mayo are getting little or nothing from the Corrib gas; and whether it is acceptable to adopt the heavy-handed and oppressive Garda approach against local people in Mayo.

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