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Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...convicted of that crime, although some have been arrested and later released. I live in County Louth which has suffered greatly, even recently. We all know about the appalling criminality and the drug intimidation that took place in Drogheda, in particular, the dismembering of a child. The answer was a Government response, through the Minister, Deputy McEntee, in which €16...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: ...the Minister. The work she has done stands out in the sense of the work being done daily by the Garda. In the last 12 months alone, the Garda has seized more than €271 million worth of illegal drugs, 1,575 firearms and 1,780 knives and dangerous instruments. This is the result of the proactive work of gardaí on the ground, including the work being done by community...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...the matter of safety so that their children do not have to walk to school through plumes of smoke and do not have to leave school and see vulnerable people in various states of intoxication, open drug dealing and open drug injection. That is not the norm anywhere else and I will not accept it for the norm of my community. There will be no return to normality. I do not believe that...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...for Justice but the Garda Commissioner. I also want to raise one particular aspect of Sinn Féin's reaction to recent events. As part of my brief in the Department of Health, I meet with people in drug and alcohol addiction and also provide the services to help them. I have never posted a picture or video on social media of a vulnerable person in need of help. Sinn Féin, on...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the streets in Dublin, the Government has decided it can no longer put a roof over the heads of people seeking international protection. What a colossal failure. It is a cross-governmental failure to engage in genuine reform of our prison system and drug policy or to properly tackle the causes of social exclusion. Our prison system is vastly overcrowded. In September, the Inspector...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Lou McDonald: The streets of Dublin's north inner city have not been safe for a long time. The area is scourged by open drug dealing, drug-taking, on-street nuisance drinking, and constant and threatening antisocial behaviour. It is in this abnormal atmosphere that people go about their daily lives. People make their journeys to work and parents do the school drop-offs with the ever-present hum of...