Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I can see what the chairperson is saying. We have a unitary service. I acknowledge that we could look at how one handles security in the context of a security service. The system that exists in other European countries was originally that the primary police service was born out of the type of structural policing that we would view as abhorrent. In many countries the police service has been sanitised over the past number of decades. The original purpose of those security services was something that we would never like here. I would never be of the view that we should split An Garda Síochána into anything like that. On that basis there is a huge reservation and I believe most people on the street would be fearful of a situation where we would be left without a police service through strike action. I thank Ms Feehily for her answers today.