Mr. Michael Finn:

It is a challenge for us. We did well in the past because we attracted the right type of people to the organisation who had the skills to deal with it, even though they might not have been formally trained to the level that Dr. Shannon would like us to be. We came out well because we engage with the public, have a connection with the community and that empathy. It stood to us. We would certainly like to see more training in that regard.

Dealing with the type of issues we are talking about is very labour intensive and, as the Deputy said, it invariably happens at weekends when not only are the support services maybe not even there but we are at a time where we are at peak demands from a policing perspective. It is a big challenge for us to provide the level of service that we would like to give to policing when so much of our time is taken up by what I would not describe as core policing demands but as matters that fall to the police to deal with, especially at weekends when we are stretched and have the least resources to help us. It is a challenge for us. Mr. Leahy might want to add to that from the Dublin metropolitan region perspective.