Seanad leader Lisa Chambers said she has 'altered her route' when working in Dublin as she feels unsafe.
"I live in Castlebar in Mayo - a rural town - and then I'm in Dublin during the week obviously for my work in the Seanad," she said.
"I've altered my route back to where I'd stay and would be far more conscious, particularly since the pandemic. "We know that assaults on Gardaí are up 10% in the last year; we know that about 300 Gardaí are out from work injured every year because of assaults, and there's 1,000 members of the force assaulted annually," she said."There should be alarm bells ringing right now, because what is happening in the Gardaí is what has happened already in the Defence Forces.
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