Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State's visit to the north inner city. He is welcome to come and visit my own constituency. He is right; it does go in scale. It can be a matter of a bag in a bin or it can be a matter of a washing machine and a half a tonne of a truck in a laneway. We need proportionate responses and we also need swift action in this regard. I urge the LGMA and the CCMA to present the code. Once that is done and local authorities are in a position to use CCTV legally within the frameworks of privacy legislation and so on, it will be up to use in this House to put pressure on those organisations to help us to implement the law that we facilitated.

Dublin City Council spends nearly €1 million per year. That could be spent on preventative measures and it could also be spent on many other positive projects in our community. Senator Malcolm Byrne referenced the figure of nearly €90 million being spent across the country. I thank the Minister of State for the work he has done on this project and I urge him to continue.

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