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The Road Safety Authority says it is “anxious” to see the full complement of resources being deployed to roads policing duties.
Flanagan said he will be meeting with the Garda Commissioner later today about the situation with feuding gangs in Drogheda.
Despite large scale successes, low level dealers are acting “with impunity”.
The Garda Commissioner said the organisation will significantly exceed the budget and this is not sustainable.
The Garda Representative Association said as many as 60% of gardaí only have basic driver training, which means they can not exceed the speed limit in a chase.
The Garda Representative Association has said many assaults go unrecorded because officers carry on working afterwards.
Just 53 of the promised 260 vehicles for this year have come on stream so far.
The request was not met and just one four-wheel drive vehicle was available last night.
The overtime cuts are affecting policing in the north inner city.
Pat Leahy said that in terms of personnel allocation, there are other areas of Dublin that he would wish to prioritise.
The OPW agreed a new €6 million a year lease with the building’s owner at the end of last year.
International students studying in Ireland are facing a myriad of problems.
Superintendent Noel Cunningham said gardaí on the ground were frequently being called to serious incidents immediately after checkpoints.
An internal dispute about two motions being removed from the GRA’s agenda is also likely to boil over this week.
Some of the summary results from last year’s census will be published today.
The bill for the Dublin divisions made up 62% of the overall spend.
The allocation means there will now be nearly 7,500 special needs teachers in the system.
Professor Kevin Walsh, Consultant Cardiologist at the Mater Hospital has raised concerns about resources.
Assistant Commissioner Michael O’Sullivan said the force had more than enough resources to tackle crime.
The Manchester United boss points to 14 injuries that could have made his season look very different.
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Trevor Laffan, who is recently retired, said the hard work put in to build up relationships in the community have been ruined by bad bad decision-making.
The report was released in May 2009.
Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan said gardaí plan to put as many of the crime gangs out of business as they possibly can.
30 locations across the country will benefit from garda building improvements in the next six years.
16 of the 27 gardaí temporarily transferred to Louth are coming from the Cavan/Monaghan division.
Gardaí say all incidents are being investigated and a number of people have been questioned.
A Cork garda recounted an armed incident in which he believes lives were put at risk because of a lack of equipment.
Officers have said the use of taxis is usually a resourcing issue.
The situation was rectified.
A report gave details of unclean equipment, unregulated isolation rooms and potential risk of inter-patient transmission of infective material because of low staffing levels.
Visitor numbers to the NLI are up 42% on last year.
HSE has responded saying that the new unit has not been comissioned for use, but this is being examined “in the context of new staff being employed”.
The Psychiatric Nurses Association say that the government’s roadmap for improvements in the sector needs to be overhauled.
Researchers said that the findings should be a wake-up call that there is an urgent need for high quality services.
The Dublin Metropolitan Region office handles ten times as may calls as the next busiest centre.
Minister Ruairi Quinn has stressed that there are currently no plans to reassess resource levels.
Donegal manger Jim McGuinness believes his county are at a disadvantage.
Inner City Helping Homeless says a nightly run is now averaging 80 rough sleepers.
General Secretary Sheila Nunan said the workload of principals needs to be reviewed.