The Green Party’s Mark Dearey
Dundalk Town Council has been urged to use its CCTV cameras to help combat open-drug dealing in the town.
Sinn Fein’s Kevin Meenan and the Green Party’s Mark Dearey both told the local authority’s recent monthly meeting, that they’d been contacted by people concerned about the extent of dealing in broad-daylight in council and private estates.
Officials assured them that the CCTV footage can be made available to the Gardaí and that the Town Council has a zero-tolerance policy in relation to dealing taking place in local authority housing.
The meeting heard that a case is already ongoing in relation to securing an exclusion order.
Cllr Meenan says that at the moment some parents aren’t able to pay their bills, including their rent, because they’ve to find the money to pay off their children’s dealers.
Cllr Dearey told LMFM on Monday that he’s glad that the message is getting out there that the council will take action.
Have you spotted dealing going on in broad daylight in Dundalk?
