Kenny: Coalition failing to tackle feud threat
Unemployed Gerard Goulding was lured to a housing estate near Donaghmede on Monday night, where a gunman shot the father-of-one in the back of the head.
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny told TDs in the Dáil the latest killing was further evidence that drugs-related crime is rampant across the capital.
“Crime figures are not just statistics. They are the evidence of murder and terror spreading their way across this city.
“This is what is behind the necessity to feed a cocaine habit costing €1,000-a-day which is now rampant in this city.”
Mr Kenny claimed that only 12 of the 75 murders committed with weapons between 1998-2004 had resulted in convictions.
And he accused the Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrat coalition of failing during nine years of government to deal with the threat to society from drugs gangs.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said the Government had always prioritised resources for extra gardaí and special operations to tackle crime.
Mr Ahern told the Dáil: “Murders in the first quarter are up from nine to 12 and that is 12 too many.”
But Mr Kenny said a lack of resources meant gardaí had to contact their colleagues in stations on their personal mobile phones while others had to rush to crime scenes in taxis.
“Is this not an absolute indictment of the Government and the Minister for Justice that has spun the most sophisticated web of rhetoric, hyperbole and nonsense?”
