Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am open to correction but in the 1980s there was a more formal structure between Garda superintendents on the southern side of the Border and their counterparts in the North. While there are good relations between North and South now, where gardaí can telephone their PSNI colleagues, we should look at a more localised structure. Rather than Deputy Smith and Deputy Mac Lochlainn having to raise issues in here about our local areas, communities should be able to make suggestions and perhaps the Minister could consider community policing at town and county level. That model works and we should consider it for the Fermanagh-Cavan region or Tyrone-Derry-Donegal, where the community could be involved while being reassured at the same time.

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