Crime same as in 1995, admits FG

FINE GAEL justice spokesman Jim O’Keeffe yesterday conceded that crime rates were the same in 2007 as they were in 1995, the last time that his party were in government.

But he stood over his contention that the crime problem was spiralling out of control notwithstanding the fact that the headline crimes were about 100,000 twelve years ago, the same as they are today.

When pressed that crime is where it was ten years ago, despite the increase in population, Mr O’Keeffe accepted it was true.