Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to concentrate on the implementation group, the Cherry Orchard group that is to be headed by Mr. Brendan Foster. There is urgency. When the Minister without Portfolio, Deputy McEntee, announced the group in December, she understood the need for urgency to ensure the community would understand that action is being taken. While the current Minister said Operation Préachán is ongoing, the high-level public order unit disappeared as one cannot have public order policing as a norm. However, the number of gardaí has dropped and the overtime has dropped. In fact, Dublin City Council had to pay for bicycles for the gardaí. That is the state of it.

There is an urgency about this. We need to hear when this team is going to be up and running and when some of the actions already promised by Dublin City Council and Government are going to be delivered.

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