Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I suspect the reason he is not here is his great discomfort about what the statistics reveal for Portlaoise. The Minister of State said the reason for the decline in Garda numbers was the economic crash to which Fine Gael refers three times a day. However, that does not explain the decline in Garda numbers in Dublin between 2016 and 2017. What was the Fine Gael slogan during the last election?

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