Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

As the Taoiseach referred earlier to this with so much passion I thought I would ask more about it. I hold in my hand the North Inner City Local Community Safety Partnership document, which was released a couple of weeks ago. It has been two and a half years in the making. It was well heralded in advance that this would make a difference. This is 52 pages of what I consider constitutes someone's stream of thought. There are 51 recommendations that have no resources behind them. The glossary of recommendations at the back would be funny if it was not so serious. The risks to resource community policing being maintained in the north inner city are listed as recruitment and resources not being available. "Resources not available" is listed several times. Recruitment and retention becoming a problem is also mentioned. I would like to see an effective policing plan for the country as a whole but for the community I represent, which does happen to contain the central part of the city centre, this is far from that.

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