Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

As I stated in my original reply, the Garda prioritises bench warrants relating to the arrest of people for serious and general crime. As a result of resource constrictions, they do not tend to concentrate on financial warrants, or distress warrants, as can be seen from the August figures. Some 55 in that case were distress warrants relating to the collection of goods and chattels. The vast majority of the bench warrants concentrated on deal with serious crime.

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