Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Dublin is clearly underpoliced. There are not enough gardaí in our capital city and I do not think anyone disputes that after last Thursday. However, it needs to be said that the rest of the State is also underpoliced. In County Monaghan, I regularly hear from people in each of our towns and villages who tell me they feel unsafe walking up their main street for the first time in their lives. After 12 years of Fine Gael governments, we have fewer gardaí and fewer Garda stations in our county than when it came to office. This year, of the 227 gardaí who came out of Templemore, 165 have been deployed to Dublin. If that continues, virtually every single area outside Dublin will have fewer gardaí next year than this year. Will the Taoiseach ensure that will not happen and that the necessary resources going to police Dublin are not at the expense of other counties?

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