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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gangland Killings (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: People outside the House are rightly asking how the Minister can recruit an extra 600 personnel for the Defence Forces, yet he will not do the same for An Garda Síochána.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gangland Killings (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: Why will the Minister not answer that question?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gangland Killings (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: I know the Minister cannot answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gangland Killings (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: I do not get upset.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gangland Killings (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: Yet the complement of gardaí will fall below 12,000.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gangland Killings (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: The Government can change this.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gangland Killings (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: The Minister has still not stated to what level he will allow the complement of gardaí to drop before he recruits more members.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gangland Killings (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to address the increase in gangland crime and murders over the past number of months; if his attention has been drawn to a recent United States Congressional Research Service report entitled Terrorism and Transnational Crime: Foreign Policy Issues for Congress, in which it cited US Department of Homeland Security authorities...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Gangland Killings (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: When the Garda Commissioner appeared before the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality recently, as the Minister will be aware, he outlined up to 25 criminal organisations operating in the State which are part of an organised crime network and gangland activities. It is mind-boggling to think that up to €860 million is being lost to the Exchequer by way of the illegal tobacco...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: It ill behoves the Minister to cite the example of Northern Ireland and Scotland as a reason to support this crazy decision which he knows is wrong. He also knows that 40% of the population of this country resides outside the greater Dublin area and it is they who will be most affected by this decision. He has also closed down Garda stations in the greater Dublin area in Stepaside,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: The Minister's decision means he has removed the Garda presence from communities all over the country. If he thinks that is a positive policing innovation then he is completely out of touch. I reiterate that this decision had nothing to do with financial considerations. It was very cowardly of the Minister to announce these closures by way of e-mail. Why did he not come into the House...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: I am reflecting what communities think about it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: The closure of Garda stations is not in the agreement.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: There is nothing in the troika agreement about closing Garda stations.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: He should be truthful in what he is saying. He should stick to the facts.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: Closing down Garda stations is not making them available.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: It means they will be sitting in community centres instead.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the closure of Garda stations in 2013; his plans for Garda recruitment; his plans for the total number of Gardaí in 2013, 2014 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55542/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: When they come to write the political review of the year, Deputy Shatter will, as a result of how he disseminated this information on budget day last week, be dubbed the most cowardly Minister. It was an exceptionally cowardly act, in the middle of the busiest political day of the year, to announce the closure of up to 100 Garda stations throughout the country in the manner in which he did...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Stations (11 Dec 2012)

Niall Collins: This is part of a larger agenda on the part of the Government, which has done the same with small schools and community welfare offices, has closed down bank branches and is merging credit unions. Essentially, this Administration is sucking essential services out of communities throughout the country.