Mr. Noel Waters:

I am not denying that there was not disinvestment in the Garda in the leaner years. There was, but our job now is to bring that back up as best and as quickly as we can, and we are embarked upon that.

At the same time, we are working with the Garda and the other agencies that support the Garda to try to create the conditions in which we get more in terms of a policing response and better ways of working - for example, hiring more civilians - and all of the issues that go with doing things differently. There are a number of prongs to this-----