Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In County Clare alone since 2011 there has been a 6% increase in the number of burglaries. From 2011 to the end of June 2015, there was a 90% increase in the numbers of rapes and sexual assaults, with a 10% increase in the number of theft and related offences. It is clear that the Government has taken four years to wake up to the seriousness of the crime wave sweeping across rural areas. Now that it has come to the calling of a general election, the Minister is responding with no real specifics and no recognition of the impact this crime wave has had on rural communities. She needs to have specifics and set out in a clear and concise way how the moneys the Government has set aside will be spent in a way that will ensure people will start to have confidence again in the Garda's capacity to ensure these crimes will not be acceptable. Will she provide appropriate resources for An Garda Síochána?

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