Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State said community safety is everybody's responsibility, and it is, but when something is everybody's responsibility, it can quickly become nobody's responsibility, particularly with Departments passing the buck from one to the other. That is why we need a multiagency task force to pull everyone together, as has worked effectively in other areas facing similar problems. Much of the Minister of State's response focuses on the policing response, arrests, equipment and sentencing, but we need a community development response alongside that. We need a youth work response and sports investment alongside the policing. This is why we need the multiagency task force. We need it to pull together all these disparate strands that are leaving the work to somebody else.

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