Selected quotes from exchanges on crime.
It is absurd to state that there has been a dramatic increase in headline crime for 2005, when the level of headline crime for 2005 is 4.4 per cent lower than the level for 2002.
- Minister for Justice Michael McDowell
I am concerned about the crime epidemic. My first concern is that the Minister does not appear to accept that we have an enormous problem with crime.
- Jim O'Keeffe (FG)
Of course, I regard crime as serious
- Mr McDowell
It remains the case that the Minister has not faced up to the serious crime problem, whether it involves murder, gangland killings, anti-social behaviour or drugs.
- Joe Costello (Labour)
I have not heard one sensible suggestion from the Labour Party in the time I have been Minister for Justice.
- Mr McDowell
