Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise an urgent matter of local and national importance, namely, the fact that more Garda personnel need to be made available in the Border region in light of the serious crime being carried out at present. Recently, two ATM machines were taken out of the walls in Cootehill on the one night. Only a few months earlier, this happened to the ATM of one of the banks in the town. Efforts have been made to take out the ATM machines in Clones and Smithborough. The local co-op store's safe was also stolen and the same thing is happening along the Border in counties Armagh, Tyrone and Fermanagh. It is vital that the group responsible be apprehended and dealt with; otherwise, the money may be used for subversive activities at a major cost to the nation. This issue is urgent and must be dealt with. The PSNI and Garda are working together very closely.

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