John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of overtime worked by gardaí in the Lucan and Clondalkin Garda districts under Operation Anvil for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8430/07]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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Operation Anvil commenced in the Garda Dublin Metropolitan Region (DMR) on 17 May, 2005. It is an intelligence led policing initiative, the focus of which is the targeting of active criminals and their associates involved in serious crime by preventing and disrupting their criminal activity through extensive additional overt patrolling and static check points by uniform, mobile and foot patrols, supported by armed plain clothes patrols. The Operation remains in place and is on-going in the DMR.

I have been informed by the Garda authorities that the amount of overtime worked by Gardaí in the Lucan and Clondalkin Garda Districts for the years 2005, 2006 and to date in 2007 under Operation Anvil are as set out in the table hereunder: