Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 2 Apr 1996

Vol. 463 No. 6

Written Answers. - Garda Research Unit.

Joe Costello

Ceist:

234 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice whether the Garda research unit based in Templemore, County Tipperary, might be usefully deployed in the Dublin North Central division area to assess the scale of the many criminal networks involved in drugs supply and distribution in view of the drug problem there; and if this proposal will be put to the Garda Commissioner. [7170/96]

Minister for Justice (Mrs. Owen)

I am informed by the Garda authorities that the type of assessment referred to by the Deputy is a matter of operational policing and the gathering of criminal intelligence and, as such, would not be appropriate to the research unit.