Mr. Drew Harris:

I would point to the fact that from 20 September, and this is the first time in my experience that it has been the situation, we have had two public order units on duty every day in Dublin. In effect, that was a recognition on our part that things were tense and there was real difficulty around that community tension. We required 250 public order personnel, which is our largest deployment of public order personnel, in effect, to quell this riot. In between the 50 who were on duty and the 250 that were required, it is very difficult to say what number we should have had immediately available. We would still have needed to draw on resources from elsewhere and to draw on individuals who in effect were off duty to get that number of 250.