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 unfortunately, the question is, how bad is it going to get before we see a serious intervention?
Well, I would counter that in terms of actual experience directly.
But anyway, in terms of communities, what's been said and what's going on, and I think what Barry is failing to see is the actual reality of what is happening on the ground in communities across this country, particularly areas like Ballymun, Finglas, but areas of high deprivation in the north inner city as well.
There is a huge level of intimidation going on, a huge level of criminality, drug-related,
that is just being left happen.
There is open drug dealing going on, as I said, in parts of Ballymun, outside schools.
And I raised it directly in the Dáil.
People are being intimidated, windows broken in.
And this is a community that has been, you know, suffered for many, many decades, affected by deprivation.
And it's not the only community.
This is not an isolated incident.
This is an escalation of a feud that's going on that the guards have to intervene in.
Ballymun cannot be left alone.
when we see something and something much, much worse is going to happen.
Well, the Minister for Justice said that, you know, this is unacceptable and he will, similar to what Barry outlined there, they will take action to address it.
But we're not seeing it.
We're not seeing the action on the ground.
We need high visibility initiatives that make this completely unacceptable.
Like, how is it tolerated?
Can I just respond there?
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