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Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...but we need to address the root causes of the lack of safety and public order. We need to ensure there is an elimination, that is an absolute tackling and ending of the ongoing, consistent, persistent and open drug dealing, usage and distribution in the city centre. I could set my watch by it. I refer to all the other antisocial behaviour that goes on and that makes people uncomfortable...

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Marie Sherlock: .... People are afraid to walk around their own communities or the city centre and there is a sense that the people whose lives have fallen apart have been left on our streets. Whether it is due to alcoholism, drug addiction or mental health issues, those people need to be better supported. What is the Government response to this? We have had a community safety forum in place now for some...

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...outrage when it comes to the housing, health, education and poverty crises? Other policies which I see as violent and not safe include austerity, children being raised in hotels, direct provision, our drug laws, the State oppression of Travellers, underfunding of mental health, prison, the guards not answering calls from domestic violence victims, treatment of single mothers and austerity...

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...2023 and what happened last Thursday could have happened anywhere, at any of our children's crèches. Some people took that for granted. I have heard one or two Senators calling those who were involved drug addicts and referring to their actions as thuggery. There were so many people, along with these far-right activists or whatever they like to call themselves. I like to say of...