Green Party attacks FF over ‘low crime levels’

THE opposition normally uses crime figures to berate the Government, but in an unusual step, the Green Party yesterday said crime levels were too low to justify the amount of people in prison.

While Fine Gael and Labour have consistently attacked the Government’s record on crime — the former launching a billboard campaign yesterday claiming murder, rape and gun offences had all increased — the Greens chose a different tack.

It instead criticised the Government for incarcerating too many people, saying the amount of prisoners was out of proportion to the level of crime.