Mr. Martin Callinan:

Crime is falling in the majority of crime designations. Similarly, public order, criminal damage, assaults and so on are going in the right direction. The issue in the context of crime and crime trends is burglaries, which have been the bane of our life for many years. The Central Statistics Office groups categories of crime. It works slightly differently from us, although we provide the figures. In the area of property crime, there are burglaries, robberies, aggravated burglaries and thefts generally. They are the crime disciplines we deal with that are grouped together under property crime. This year, so far, we have managed to halt the graph which has been steadily rising since 2007, and we are 0.4% down on last year. Operation Fiacla has been responsible for a great deal of the success given that burglaries occupy the lion's share of that property grouping. It is a work in progress. We are working hard to reduce the level of crime in those areas. I think the regime in place and the strategies and tactics being employed in targeting these people and in pin-mapping where the crimes are committed are working well.