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

I thank the Deputy. We are doing that. There are more members of An Garda Síochána than was ever the case before. A very significant recruitment campaign is under way, having been launched by the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, only a few days ago. That will help us to continue to increase the visibility of policing in urban and rural areas, especially when it comes to community gardaí.

On CCTV, we have a problem and we are working through the issue at the moment. It is all around data protection. You can have CCTV. There is lots of it and we need more of it but somebody must agree to be the data controller. It is not good enough for public bodies to say they want CCTV-----

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