Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)

I welcome the fact that the Minister has asked the Commissioner to review this because it is an admission that the provision is not addressing the problem of anti-social behaviour on our streets. Communities are under siege. The Minister needs to look at community policing. There are fewer than 700 community gardaí in this country. The Minister needs to put community gardaí into communities to work with them. In my town of Ennis, we have only five community gardaí for a population of 25,000 people. The Minister should focus on that in any such review.

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