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Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Will legislation be required?

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: It has not gone up.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: No. It has been raising that money itself.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Government is not responding to it and it announced its closure at Christmas. Nine families are housed in the refuge in Tallaght.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: The organisation has approached the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Government is making a mockery of everything, with all the talk that goes on, the millions and plans. The people on the ground see all this happening.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: This is a parliament.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: And flexibility as well.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: They have nothing to do with burglaries.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Oh, yes. Their heads will roll.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: There has been much talk about billions of euro and so on. My office was contacted last night by Respond housing association in order to highlight that on Monday last it announced the closure of its women's refuge in Tallaght at Christmas. There are nine families housed at that refuge right now. Respond has been funding the facility itself for three years at €350,000 per annum. It...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: What are they all saying? They are saying Garda presence matters.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Stations matter. They act as a deterrent. Presence on the ground acts as a deterrent and there is the capacity to gather local intelligence. When local people see somebody acting strangely, they can report it and get an immediate response but that is not happening. The Taoiseach is detached and out of touch.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: To be honest with the Taoiseach, the people listening this morning to all this stuff about technology are not really worried about that.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: They would much prefer to have a local garda with local knowledge on the ground.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is not good enough to say, "It is not as good as we might like it to be", but that is what the Taoiseach is saying.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Approximately 28,000 burglaries are reported every year. The Taoiseach got it wrong in terms of the closure of Garda stations and he is out of touch with rural Ireland and with the lives of people on the ground.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Councillor Noel Gleeson summed it up best-----

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----when he said:Rural Ireland is being decimated as regards law and order, that’s the bottom line. We can’t say it often enough and hopefully someone might heed us... Will the Taoiseach heed what people across the country are saying?

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Careful, Dinny. Look in your own corner.