Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

The 331 officers to whom I referred are the ones on whom we should concentrate, as opposed to those in the centralised unit. The same arguments made by Deputy Cuffe for localising resources apply to CAB. At the end of December 2002, there were 50 people in the national drugs unit and in 2003 there were 52. In 2004 the unit had 49 members, in 2005 it had 55 and in 2006 there were 48.

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