Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his response. Several Ministers have come to Cherry Orchard to see for themselves what is going on. The Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Deputy James Browne, and the Minister without Portfolio, Deputy Helen McEntee, have done so. They announced the implementation board which the Minister mentioned in his response but very little has happened. While there may be stuff happening behind the scenes, it is certainly not impacting or filtering through and the community is not necessarily seeing the benefit of that. Part of that is about community confidence in the process and community confidence in the Garda. In the short term, we need to accelerate the work of the implementation board and accelerate the provision of resources available to the Garda. In the medium term, we need to think about the wider social supports while in the long term we need to think about the wider social inequality in Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard. We need to address all of those issues, but certainly in the short term, there is a need to accelerate the work of the Cherry Orchard implementation board and ensure it has the resources to do what it needs to do.

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