Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise the ongoing feud in Drogheda under the programme for Government and crime prevention regarding ensuring more responsive and visible policing in the community, and in particular the announcement of 25 additional gardaí for the town. That is to be welcomed, however belated it is. Serious concerns arise in Drogheda on whether the 25 additional gardaí will be all new recruits fresh out of Templemore who have had no first hand experience of dealing with a serious drugs feud of this nature or if they will be experienced gardaí. We seek clarification in that regard.

We also wish to learn how much longer we must wait until we see the additional gardaí on the streets and whether they will be deployed on a permanent basis. We never again want to see what happened in December, when we were given 12 additional gardaí but nine of them were taken away by mid-January. We saw what happened following on from that in terms of the intensification of the feud. I would welcome clarification from the Tánaiste.

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