Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My Department and An Garda Síochána have worked with the Department of the Minister, Deputy Ryan, to ensure we have strong laws to prosecute those who are misusing scramblers but also to confiscate where it is necessary. Much of that legislation has been enacted and commenced. It is being used by gardaí already. We saw only recently in Limerick a significant number of seizures of scramblers. Obviously, that is very welcome in the communities that are being terrorised. I am not sure of the exact timeline for the remaining parts of it but I assure the Deputy that the gardaí have more powers than they had previously to be able to respond to these crimes and take these quite dangerous vehicles off our streets, where necessary.

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