Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I listened carefully to what Fr. Cusack had to say yesterday in the Redemptorist Church in Dundalk. He spoke very movingly about the trauma experienced by anyone, whether they lived in a rural area or a city centre, who had ever been subjected to a robbery or an invasion of his or her home space, particularly robbery with violence. Fr. Cusack spoke movingly about that experience. In the latter part of his comments Deputy Willie O'Dea addressed what was happening in terms of the changes in crime patterns because of the development of the road network.

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