Tony Gregory (Dublin Central, Independent)

I was going to conclude with a few remarks on the Criminal Assets Bureau, which is probably outside the remit of the Minister of State, Deputy Pat Carey, but I addressed it a number of times previously.

It is high time to review the powers of and resources available to CAB. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform stated that he would provide additional resources and referred to profilers, namely, each Garda district would have a profiler to get and forward drug dealers' details to CAB. This will not help because CAB is effectively a small, centralised bureaucracy. While profilers across the country will send their information to CAB, it will not have the resources to respond. The only way to get at drug dealers through their assets is with local units of CAB in the areas where they are needed or where there are serious drugs crises.

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