Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I remind the Deputy of the success of Operation Thor. This targeted police operation dealt with burglary issues that had arisen in urban and rural areas.

Having regard to its success, that is the direction in which we need to continue with a targeted operation with mobile patrols and liaison locally working with communities. We saw a very significant reduction in burglaries in the last quarter of last year. It was approximately 24% and there was a reduction in the number of burglaries in the year overall. While any one incident of the type the Deputy described is one too many, in terms of effective policing, having the targeted approach we put in place with Operation Thor, which is continuing, is clearly the way to go.

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