Rory Hearne
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352 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 24 Aug
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And this has been highlighted for years.
The Montague report, which my colleague Róisín Shortall and others had highlighted five years ago, pointed out the need for significant increase in Garda presence in Ballymun and also investment in drug prevention, in community prevention, in youth services.
And I just I can't like this would not be tolerated in wealthier parts of Dublin, in Fox Rock and places like that.
A child been exposed in this way.
And I raised this in the Dáil two weeks ago directly that open drug dealing was taking place outside primary schools.
Children were having to walk past it in Ballymun.
And I asked the minister for justice directly.
How is this acceptable?
But the question is, what leads to that incident?
And the Montagu report and the latest figures show that the level of policing in Dublin North is significantly below the national average and is actually below the wider Dublin area.
And the community has been calling and I've been calling for increased visibility of Gardaí
Because what that does then is people can't operate, the drug gangs can't operate in broad daylight, which they are doing right now.
So you wouldn't have this situation where people are walking around with guns that can then be dropped wherever it is and a child or someone else picks it up
This level of gang intimidation going on has been going on for a number of years.
It's been escalating.
I've been contacted by families in recent times whose windows have been smashed in.
These are people not involved.
We've raised it with the guards.
We've raised it with the minister.
This has been building.
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