Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We might well look for consistency and coherence on policy. We can agree North and South on the need for more effective and better quality policing which takes into account the change in crime patterns caused, in part, by easier access to the countryside. People want to see - and the Garda Commissioner has committed to - an end to circumstances in which gardaí are forced to spend excessive time in offices but, instead, their deployment for operational policing on the front line.

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