Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Like the Deputy, I express my deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Quham Babatunde on his shocking death on the streets of Dublin this weekend. We think of all the victims of crime recently in our city and in Stoneybatter. It is unacceptable. Significant additional resources are being put into high-visibility policing in Dublin city centre. More than half of the gardaí who attested last year were allocated to stations across Dublin. Since 2020, there has been a 40% increase in the number of Garda staff working across the DMR, freeing up gardaí for front-line duty. We will continue to resource the Garda in respect of facial recognition technology, body-worn cameras and additional gardaí on an ongoing basis.

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