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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.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach is aware of the harrowing accounts in today's newspapers of the incredible trauma that Mark and Emma Corcoran had to endure at the hands of seven criminals who travelled from Dublin to burgle the Corcoran family home in Tipperary. Their daughters spoke of how they thought their Daddy was going to die at the hands of these criminals. The criminals wore balaclavas and...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is a very weak response. The Taoiseach is speaking like a commentator who is helpless to do anything about it. His recent interview in the Irish Independent was quite remarkable. In it he declared to the nation that he had been told recently that the Garda that travelling gangs are evading gardaí by driving at high speed and wearing night-vision goggles. The headlines blared...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: What will the Taoiseach do about it?

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Will he listen to the people in rural Ireland? I mentioned John Comer of the ICMSA, Tim O'Leary of the IFA, the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors and local councillors from all parties.

Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: In respect of the criminal justice Bill, gardaí are dealing with very outdated equipment and surveillance technology and they are hopelessly under-resourced to fight organised crime, general criminality, fuel smuggling and laundering, smuggling and so on. When can we expect the criminal justice (offences relating to information systems) Bill, which is to deal with cybercrime, to be...