Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is a very complex issue and we must take care about the manner in which we deal with it. I met with the families in July last and that is the position in that regard.

One contributor - I think it was Deputy Mac Lochlainn - ran the old line and made references to the closure of Garda stations and to Garda resources. We dealt with this issue at great length at today's meeting of the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. I thank the Irish Examiner for the excellent publication it produced a few days ago looking at crime in every county in Ireland and for the manner in which it approached the issue. The statistics showed clearly the truth of what I have been saying, namely, that better deployment of gardaí and effective, targeted operations-----

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