Mr. Eddie Downey:

There are two issues. In his new role, Mr. Connolly is going to go across the country, talking to farmers and county executives to get information as to how we can best be defensive in managing ourselves and what measures we can take to make our farms and equipment safer and more secure. We see working with other groups as key to this process. We work with Muintir na Tíre and with different groups along the way. We see the GAA as a major organisation in rural Ireland. This area of security has to be addressed from that point of view. As I said already, and maybe I did not get that across the way I wanted to, we do not see this totally as the Garda's problem. The Garda is part of the solution, as are we, the people who live in the communities, and we have to work together to make best use of the resources, be it the farmers themselves, who are, as Mr. Bergin said, our eyes and ears on the countryside, the GAA, or whoever is out there, all those organisations. We have to work together and become more security-conscious in what we do.