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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

...with any other European capital city. The figure currently stands at just 255 gardaí per 100,000 population in Dublin. We need a zero-tolerance approach towards the public sale and consumption of illegal drugs. We also need to review the efficacy of the proliferation of drug treatment centres and in the future of medically supervised injection facilities in the city. A forum...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Pa Daly: ...been done over the past 25 or 30 years. I hear what Mr. Gallagher says. When we met gardaí and business leaders during the summer in the north-inner city of Dublin, we heard the HSE closed a lot of drug clinics, for example, in Blanchardstown. They were all funnelled in. Vulnerable people, some ex-prisoners and people with drug issues were funnelled in to the city centre but we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Niamh Smyth: I apologise for interrupting. Another important aspect of all of this are the drugs units within divisions across the country. Cavan-Monaghan has 12 gardaí allocated to that. My understanding is that between transfers, promotions and changes to rosters, that number is going to deplete. What impact are all these issues having on incredibly important units within An Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Mr. Brendan O'Connor: The drugs unit is like the community policing unit in that it was under threat if we had to move back to the five-unit shift pattern. We hope the immediate threat has been removed but, again, the problem is recruitment. We just do not have the personnel and those units are becoming more and more depleted. As Deputy Smyth said, there are fewer numbers in them. We see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...equipped, as outlined by the witnesses in the submissions. I find some of the submissions on the policing of Dublin city have a couple of omissions in them. There is a lot of talk about illegal drugs but there is no mention of alcohol, which is a much bigger contributor to crime and antisocial behaviour and to a lack of safety in Dublin city centre and yet that never seems to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: .... It is getting the biggest squeeze and is certainly not being expanded. I agree with Deputy Costello about the other two presentations on social issues in Dublin. Alcohol was not mentioned. Are we to believe that the only drug taking in Dublin is done on the street? I am quite sure people are taking cocaine in restaurants, pubs and nightclubs and they are getting intoxicated with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

...case after case of queries from members who feel that the crime they reported was never followed up. I have had personal experience of that and it needs to be dealt with. There is apathy out there. On the drug treatment centre, I said they need to work with businesses. They are not at the moment. The new drug treatment centre in Dublin 8 is not working with the local businesses. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...are close to Dublin, and most of the action, as it were, will happen in those areas. In the event of an incident, members will be taken from Cavan and Monaghan to those towns. How does the review stand? Mention was made of a drugs unit in Cavan and Monaghan and how many members it had, but my understanding is that we do not have one, never mind the question of how strong it is. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Alan Farrell: ...Deputy Costello. I too am surprised by this because the vast majority of the issues of which I am informed, particularly in the city centre but also in our towns and villages, are alcohol-related rather than drug-related. One of the city centre issues of which I am acutely aware, and I know housing was mentioned, is the concentration of addiction services and the impact that has on the...