Dublin City Council · Special City Council Meeting Monday 28 September 2026 · 28 September 2026

2 Motions on Notice

Motion No. 6 in the name of Councillor Malachy Steenson This Council calls for the establishment of a State of Emergency in relation to the out-of-control crime situation across this City and Country and the break down of Law and Order. In the recent past we have seen Jihadi attacks injuring an Army Officer, a Garda Officer and young children, there is now an epidemic of knife crime on the streets carried out mainly by non-nationals. We call for the immediate deportation of any non-nationals convicted of crime and the revocation of Irish Citizenship from them if they have been granted it. Further we demand that Gardai be given effective martial arts skills to effect arrests of these individuals as a number of arrest videos circulating show that the Garda involved are incapable of quickly subduing these individuals and arresting them. The recent decision of the Garda Commissioner not to prosecute those caught with drugs for personal possession while at the same time prosecuting those same individuals for not wearing high vis vests and helmets while plying their trade. Citizens are rightly concerned about the connections between organised crime gangs and AGS, and have lost confident in AGS to implement the law fairly and equally. It is clear that something is going badly wrong there are currently 6 members of the Garda before the Courts charged with assisting an Organised Crime Gang, with over 200 charges between them, there are a growing number of cases involving members of the Garda which are being hidden form the public. The public are entitled to know why were the charges against Inspector Roberts dropped and who decided firstly to charge him and then drop the charges. Further the public are entitled to know the circumstances around the death of Superintendent Fox which led to the collapse of a major OCG trial. Further in light of continual anti-social behaviour much of it fuelled by drug use and the drug trade this Council rejects the findings of the Oireachtas Committee on Drug Use and confirms its commitment to oppose any legalisation or decriminalisation of currently illegal drugs and seeks a real commitment from the State agencies to finally bring an end to the cancer that has destroyed and continues to destroy parts of our area. A cancer that has got worse year by year and decade by decade where we now see children as young as ten involved in dealing and parents being violently pursued with immunity by drug gangs for the drug debts of their children.

Proposed by Councillor Malachy Steenson.