Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. I welcome the Commissioner and her colleagues. I share fully my colleagues' support for the gardaí. I appreciate the great difficulties the Commissioner is having generally, but particularly along our Border, and I very much welcome the additional resources she has allocated to that area. Given the huge number of Border crossing points and the fact that there are probably more criminals outside Dublin than anywhere else in the country, am I to understand that, in the past, road blocks have been threatened and have had to be abandoned?

I have three further questions. First, does the Commissioner see a need for armed backup for road blocks to combat some of the criminality?