Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We need to encourage people to join the police force. I do not think it is happening to the same extent as it did before. I was involved in the devolution of justice at the time, when I was Minister for Foreign Affairs. It was hard negotiated and worked for. The Patten reforms were transformational. We should work to ensure we can build on them. If we keep using language that to me is a bit pejorative or denigrates everybody, we will never do it and we will never get there.

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