I ask the Minister, Deputy Bruton, and, indeed, the Minister for Justice and Equality, who has arrived in the Chamber, what the Government have against County Tipperary. It has taken our local councils and our Army barracks. It has taken our mental health services but now proposes to move our Garda divisional chief superintendent's office to Ennis. It will be 125 miles away from people in Tipperary. The Government is treading down on the people, worse than what Cromwell did to the people all those years ago. This Fine Gael Government is punishing the people of Tipperary because they have not returned a Fine Gael Deputy. They will never have one if the Government keeps doing this. Tipperary will fight back against this and its people are entitled to some modicum of security. There is a proud Garda Síochána record of service there. We want to keep it and we want to support them. We will not take this lying down. Will the Minister state that the Commissioner is able to do this off his own bat? There is accountability to the elected people here in Dáil and the Commissioner must be held accountable. It is not a runner and it will not happen.

Deputy Tóibín on the same matter. There are a couple of Deputies indicating.

Meath has seen a radical increase in crime and anti-social behaviour recently. Towns are being hammered with drug dealing and petrol bombs have been thrown at the courts. Attacks with hatchets have happened in broad daylight. Sexual assault is on the rise in County Meath. Restaurants are closing early because of anti-social behaviour. Currently, in rural areas, people are sleeping with knives under their pillows. People walking home from nightclubs are being attacked and are waking up in intensive care the next morning.

Meath has already got the lowest number of gardaí per capita in the State and now, shockingly, it will lose its Garda divisional headquarters. This Saturday, at 1 p.m., people in Meath will march in numbers in Navan to demand an increase in the number of gardaí and to protect the Garda divisional headquarters in Meath. Will the Minister reverse this decision?

The Minister was in Cavan, in Ballyconnell, when this announcement came out.

To remove the divisional headquarters from Monaghan to Drogheda comes as a significant blow to Cavan-Monaghan. We would assume that Monaghan should be at the centre of all that. This is also in light of the heinous crimes we saw committed only last week against Kevin Lunney, while we have also had consistent and very organised crime with the destruction and removal of ATMs in the whole area. This is all against a backdrop of a possible no-deal Brexit, which will undoubtedly cause chaos along the Border region. We had an announcement of a Garda station over five years ago in Bailieborough. It is has never happened. In Blacklion, the Garda station has never been reopened. There is real discontent and worry with the announcement to remove the headquarters to Drogheda.

A recent front-page headline in one of the newspapers local to us Lily Whites told us that Kildare has one of the highest levels of burglaries in the country. That is coupled with the fact that Kildare consistently has the lowest number of gardaí per head of population in the country. Those two statements are absolutely not unrelated. To hear yesterday that Kildare is losing its divisional headquarters was an absolute shock. Kildare has twice the population of Laois and Offaly but the Garda headquarters and all its resources on a regional level are moving to Portlaoise. Cynics might say that is because there is a Minister in Laois-Offaly and there is none in Kildare. I say those cynics are right. We have not had a Minister in Kildare to be able to shout for and demand those resources. It is absolutely wrong that Kildare is losing this key area of responsibility.

There have been four questions from different parts of the country expressing concern. I want to assure all Deputies in respect of Tipperary, Cavan-Monaghan, where I was yesterday, and my neighbours in Kildare, and Deputy Tóibín who informs us he is organising yet another march-----

The Minister should not give us reasons to organise marches.

I advise the Deputies that they are mistaken. The whole purpose of the new policing plan, which has the support of Government, the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland, the Independent Policing Authority and the independent Garda Inspectorate, is that the new operating model-----

What about the people?

The new operating model for An Garda Síochána-----

What about the people?

Deputy McGrath does not want to------

This is bullying.

The Minister without interruption.

That is bullying.

The people do not matter at all.

We are not going to get an answer if we are going to keep interrupting the Minister. I call Deputy John Brady.

It suits Deputy McGrath to come in here repeatedly and shout people down. He can go on his local radio then and claim it as something of a victory. I have news for Deputy McGrath. As a result of the implementation of this plan, we will see more gardaí on front-line duty in Tipperary, not fewer.

The Minister is codding nobody.

If the Deputy is going to keep interrupting Ministers, I will ask the Minister to take his or her seat and we will proceed to the next question.