Antisocial Behaviour
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-20
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Richard Bruton (FG), Dublin Bay North

The key to using real-time information is that people are accountable. As I understand it, the key to the success of the strategy in New York was that when dereliction appeared or when things were broken, they were quickly repaired. There was a commitment by other bodies to respond, not just a policing commitment, although that is of course welcome. That has a bearing on a lot of our problems with dereliction. Where crime develops, it is because of these things not being attended to in a timely way. These places become a shelter for activities that communities do not want to see and it escalates in that way. We need to bring more people into that daily responsibility for containing these sorts of threats.

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Sitting date: 2022-10-20