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

-----the Minister tried to tell us that control was not lost in the city, just as for months before that, she had told us that Dublin city centre was safe. No amount of mud-slinging by the Government will take away from the facts of its failure. There are fewer gardaí on our streets and fewer Garda stations in our communities than there were when Fine Gael came to power 12 year ago.

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