Mr. Noel Dunne:

I have security guards from 5 o'clock until 10 o'clock each day because I cannot afford to have them all day long. Just as Mr. Jennings said, the lads get to know very quickly that they need to be in before 5 p.m., before the security guard is in place.

On the matter of boots on the ground, since the horrible events of Thursday two weeks ago there have been more gardaí, and it is no coincidence that there has been a lower crime rate in my store as a consequence. We have had police walking by the store much more regularly. We are even busier because we are starting to see confidence in the town again. While there might have been one or two incidents in my store, rather than three, in the past ten days, the staff notice that it is a lot nicer. It is awful when staff say, "It is actually nicer to work here today."