Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The specific questions are about the operation of the committee and I appreciate that, for understandable reasons, the Taoiseach does not want to get into the committee's operational work. However, will the Taoiseach provide a general assessment of the extent to which people may feel reasonably secure that the Government and the State's security services, working with other security and intelligence services, are on top of the threat from terrorism? People are going about their normal business and are travelling abroad on planes or ships, as well as attending major events. Can the Taoiseach give them an assurance that our security services, working with other security services, are on top of the threat from terrorism? What is the Taoiseach's assessment of the situation in this country? Are we talking about a relatively small number of people who are posing, or are likely to pose, a terrorist risk?

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