Closed-Circuit Television Systems
Seanad Éireann — 2026-05-20
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Robbie Gallagher (FF), Labour Panel

I thank the Minister for his response. I again thank him sincerely for his input in trying to progress this scheme. As I said at the outset, the people of Carrickmacross have been waiting for a long time. From my experience of the CCTV system, one of the pieces of feedback and the learnings that have come back from it is the frustration by all concerned with the length of time it takes to get from the initial application to approval status. There seems to be an awful lot of fences and hurdles to jump before you get the green light. Thankfully, the people of Carrickmacross have jumped all those hurdles now. I thank the local gardaí, the local authority and the local authority members for all their work in progressing this scheme. We look forward to it going live, so to speak, in the coming weeks.

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Sitting date: 2026-05-20