Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----that the Garda is doing in the city centre in terms of going door to door to meet residents and businesses on the northside and the southside. The only thing that will address the difficulties on the city's streets is a visible Garda presence. I welcome that presence and the Garda Commissioner is focusing on feet on the street. That is the way to reassure people and to provide a solid Garda presence. Providing extra numbers is a function of training extra gardaí and we are doing that, unlike the Members opposite, who closed down Templemore. They put the shutters on Templemore.

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