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Cherry Orchard community safety

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Deputy McAuliffe welcomed progress on Cherry Orchard and highlighted frustration in Ballymun about access to senior officials and effective spending. Harris said he would welcome community representatives to discuss extending successful models through the community safety partnership.

On the subject of pilots, I want to congratulate the Minister on the meeting of the Cherry Orchard task force that took place this week. It is not my area but it is very welcome. There is some frustration in the Ballymun area, where there has been very extensive engagement with officials in the Department of An Taoiseach. Funding has been put in place but there is no point having funding if it is not spent wisely. We need access to the senior officials group, which Cherry Orchard, Darndale and the north inner city have. The Department of Justice has been particularly instrumental with regard to Darndale. I ask the Minister, Deputy Harris, to use his offices to ensure this is done. This is about access to senior officials. We are not talking about funding here. We are not talking about recommendations. They are all in place. This is the last piece of the jigsaw and I would appreciate the Minister's assistance on it.

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The Deputy will certainly have it. I ask him to arrange for some people from that community to come to see me and we can talk about this. In both Cherry Orchard and Drogheda, we have really good models that are working. The challenge for the Government is to embed those models across the country. We intend to do that as part of the community safety partnership. I would be very happy to engage on this.

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