Luas security staff claim they now have to check tickets and Leap Cards as well as deal with crime and anti-social behaviour issues.
This is despite the numbers of anti-social behaviour complaints sky-rocketing in recent years, as revealed by Dublin Live. Before Covid struck, there were 970 and 975 complaints in 2018 and 2019.
The numbers of complaints shot up to 1,686 in 2020, when lockdowns were first introduced in March, then dropped to 1,564 the following year and rose again to 1,748 in 2022.
