Labour pledges more resources to fight criminal gangs
The Labour Party is promising to provide more resources to the Gardaí and the Criminal Assets Bureau to help crack down on crime gangs.
The party says the billion-euro drugs trade is affecting every part of Ireland and needs to be tackled as a whole rather than on a compartmentalised basis.
Launching its election proposals on crime today, Labour said it did not think legalising soft drugs would help solve the current crisis.
Both Brendan Howlin and Ruairí Quinn also refused to say if they had ever taken cannabis when questioned about Brian Cowen's admission that he smoked the drug in the 1970s.
