Education Policy
Dail Éireann — 2023-11-30
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Gary Gannon (SD), Dublin Central

I appreciate that. We can also appreciate that in more middle-class and suburban areas of the country, I often find parents campaigning to remove a fast food restaurant from outside of school gates. In the inner city and surrounding areas that I represent, too often over the years I have received calls from parents and members of the school community to remove open drug dealing from outside of the school or vulnerable people in various states of intoxication from outside a school. We have to take this issue seriously.
I strongly encourage the Minister to work across Departments. There has been a massive focus on last week's incident. However, I cannot step away from the fact that members of the school community across Dublin have raised issues regarding open drug dealing outside of school gates and various sorts of antisocial behaviour. The Minister needs to work across the Cabinet to ensure that the schools which have raised those issues in the past - I am sure the incidents are well documented as they have been raised here at different points - now receive a greater sense of urgency and attention.

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Sitting date: 2023-11-30