Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I have a question on existing and promised legislation. In September and more recently on 10 December, I tabled a question to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on the number of persons imprisoned arising from the provisions of various criminal justice Acts passed by this House in the past year. No answer was provided, just a vague answer going around in circles in the usual way. Deputy Joe Costello raised the question of increased criminal activity yesterday morning. What are the other items of justice legislation, with particular reference to the curtailing of criminal activity, along the lines suggested when the legislation was introduced last summer? The suggestion was that criminal gang leaders would be put behind bars and put out of action and that law and order would be restored to the country.

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