Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach has a more positive disposition than anybody living in those towns without a Garda station, in reality. The Garda Inspectorate report on public order policing that he mentioned was published seven years ago. I have asked numerous Ministers for Justice if the recommendations of that report have been implemented. Three months after I asked the former Minister for Justice, Deputy Helen McEntee if they had been implemented, I got an answer to a parliamentary question, which stated that she did not know the answer to that and would give the answer when she could. I asked the same question of the new Minister for Justice, who came back to me in the past month. He said, seven years after they were published, that the Department is considering the recommendations. It is an incredible situation. If those recommendations had been implemented, we could have mitigated against the worst damage of the Dublin riots and their massive costs, not just in the financial cost to the taxpayer but the massive cost to our international reputation and the damage done.

We do not have a specific public order unit.

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