Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We meet regularly in the context of the Cabinet sub-committee on security. As the Deputy will appreciate, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, meets the Commissioner more regularly than do I and has already raised the issue with him on behalf of the Government.

The Deputy referred to statistics. I am a believer in science - this is Science Week - and I like statistics, but we can sometimes be a little selective in our use of them. I will provide two figures to which the Deputy did not refer.

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