Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

Yes. Operation Anvil has had significant successes and a great deal of intelligence gathering and surveillance has taken place. One can take two views of the figures. One might adopt the view that there has been a vast increase in the amount of drugs being imported in the last year while the Garda continues to seize the same proportion of them. It is a pessimistic view. The other view one can take is that the Garda has had major successes which it was not having last year and its performance has improved, which is the optimistic view.

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