Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

A number of communities in Limerick city are extremely concerned at reports that their community policing service is about to be withdrawn. Regardless of the outcome of the current negotiations on the Garda rosters, I hope this does not come to pass. If it does, it will not happen at a worse time. We are plagued with anti-social behaviour. I know several vulnerable and elderly people who are literally prisoners in their own homes, particularly by night and sometimes by day as well. I raise this matter in the context of the recent increase in investment in policing in Dublin city by the Government. Other urban areas outside Dublin equally need investment. We also have problems, and I want to know what the Government is going to do about them. Contrary to what some people might like to believe, Dublin is not Ireland.

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