There is not a community that believes the Minister has a handle on the policing issues that they face every single day. I commend the gardaí in Dublin 15. They work hard under huge pressure. I hear from them all of the time that they are under-resourced in terms of equipment, but also in terms of back-up. Can the Minister imagine how the general population feels? Last Sunday, I was sent a picture of our local park by local residents. About a dozen people were hanging around the place. There were six to eight scramblers flying around the park. Millions of euro have been spent on that park, yet a lot of people fear that they cannot use it if this issue is not dealt with. Work has been done on scramblers, which I acknowledge. The problem is there is very little enforcement because An Garda does not have the resources. It does not have the numbers. The Minister has failed every year to reach the target. Even today, he parrots the line about more gardaí on the streets. People just do not see them. I will give him an example. Bizarrely, recruits are coming out of their nine-month or two-year long training unable to drive cars with the blue lights on. They can march, because I have been down there and have seen it as part of the passing out of a relative. They can march. They spend hours practising how to march, yet they come out of there not being able to drive cars with the blue lights on. That is absolutely ludicrous. They are taunted on a daily basis by people on scramblers, yet they do not have the resources to be able to address them. I have raised time and again the resources in Britain are used for a dedicated anti-scrambler unit. The Minister needs to ensure that it is resourced and that the legislation is in place to enforce what we need to see on the ground, which is people tackling this. The buck stops with the Minister. People want to see action.

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