Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I am always brief. This relates to an issue that has been raised on numerous occasions — of which I was reminded by Deputy Finian McGrath — the escalating rate of crime. In that context this is something to which the future Taoiseach will be anxious to set his mind. When is the legislation to establish a national DNA database likely to be introduced? Alternatively, will the Tánaiste select a single item from that list read out by others already as a single indicator of how it is proposed to deal with organised gangland crime and put behind bars people who are caught?

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