Vincent Jennings

It is most certainly, for some people, it is their most abiding cost.

There are people who literally, and I mean this now literally here in the city of Dublin, there are people who have five, six, eight incidences of thefts per day.

There are drive-offs every single day.

There is at least one service station operator throughout this country who has a very substantial number.

And they, last year, have already said publicly that they lost €1 million in drive-offs.

No, no, no.

And as people get bolder, as they see that there are few or no preventions, then they just get bolder.

They do things that you wouldn't believe happen.

They do, and very frequently that's just ignored.

Other times, there are times when there is a clear, it's a sole trader or it's an individual.

But when the offended person or entity is a company, there is much less attempts by the state or by the judge to issue compensation for the company.

And I really would love to think that this is going to happen.

But during Alan Shatter's time as Minister of Justice, he announced that he was going to look at the poor box and do away with it.

Charlie Flanagan did the exact same thing.

And now we have it again.

This needs actually, we need to see that this is going to happen.

And we need to see very clearly that the wings of the poor box are clipped.

I think that the charities are most certainly in need of being assisted but is it fair that money is diverted away from victims?

What's the problem?

The problem is the absolute attempt to maintain this separation of the various forms of administration of justice.