Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome any progress in tackling the criminal gangs involved in diesel laundering and cigarette smuggling operating in the Border area. They are a plague on those communities and anything that can be done to confront them should be done.

Would the Minister consider having a dedicated justice stream within the North-South Ministerial Council? I know he has a good relationship with his counterpart in the North, the Minister, Mr. David Ford, MLA. There was a bit of focus recently on a particular matter and I have no problem with the decision the Minister made. On an operational basis it should have been the Chief Constable and the Garda Commissioner dealing with those matters at the two-day seminar - I have no criticism of that. In terms of the wider meetings involving himself, is that something he can consider?

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