Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the commitment of the Taoiseach to the twin-track approach to which I referred. We want it to be immediate and include effective policing with the degree of determination that this House showed in the mid-1990s. I welcome the fact the leaders of the Opposition parties will be briefed after tonight's meeting.

The Taoiseach's second announcement was as important as the first. I welcome the announcement that there is to be a task force. We need to know and have input into its terms of reference. Who will lead it? What sort of resources will be deployed? We should not focus on this issue simply because it is now in the public eye. Rather, we should have a medium and long-term strategy that will resolve the issue in order that these parasites cannot recruit vulnerable people in communities to do their vicious will again.

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