The Principal Officer in the Department of Justice, Gerry O Brien was host to a 2 hour “think tank” designed to put flesh on how the promises made in the Programme for Government would be done.
Each of the 10 seat tables had a Dept Justice official acting as moderator and also two senior members of the Guards. Frustration at the lack of enforcement was a recurrent theme and the need to fix existing known problems were as important, if not even more important than some of the suggested new measures.
Our CEO Vincent Jennings attended the meeting and was very critical at the lack of real consequences for thuggery, antisocial acts and abuse of staff by a small but growing cohort of individuals and gangs who seem to act with no fear of the law.
