Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Our motion was tabled on Friday morning to deal with the closure of Garda stations and the reduction of Garda resources. The Minister engaged in a spinning exercise and even ended up tangling himself up in his own spin. Many other commentators have also said, as I have said for the past several months, that the Minister is going in the wrong direction with the closure of rural Garda stations. He had little support from his own party colleagues during this motion. Many of them came in here during the debate and gave him benign support. The Minister waffled away about a national development plan. When it did not suit him, he voted against it.

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