Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2025-03-19
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

The exact same thing happened in the United Kingdom, with, as the Deputy knows, a devastating impact on particular towns. We have to be very vigilant about that and we have to protect gardaí. One of the most important things that we are keen on doing is accessing legislation in terms of facial recognition and the use of modern technological techniques and capacity, which some of the House, of course, opposes. If we had that capacity, I think we would improve our responses to events like the Dublin rioting to make sure that people are prosecuted faster and held to account much faster than they were, perhaps, prior to this.

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Sitting date: 2025-03-19