Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

A short distance away land costs several million euro an acre. What they have been asking for is a development plan, which would look at issues like access to the estates, zoning of the land for business purposes and high protection, and they have been given that.

There is nowhere else in the country where I have seen, both personally and in records, such a level of gardaí engaged in protecting, looking after and securing an area as in Moyross. It is a pity there is an area which requires that, but that is the reality. The resources have been given to bring back normality and to break and arrest the criminal element.

Deputy Kenny spoke of hardened criminals. In my constituency and elsewhere in Dublin, and in other parts of the country, there have been numerous hardened criminals who received long sentences. Thankfully, long tough sentences have been given out by the courts.

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