Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

I join with the Minister in deploring what happened on Monday night. Do I take it from what he has said that the dissident groups have the capacity not just to create destruction and mayhem, but to injure and take human life? We know from experience that is only a matter of time before human life will be put at risk, whatever their intention.

One reads reports about training bases and camps in the Republic being used by those same groups. Does the Minister know anything about the bomb on Monday night in terms of whether it was travelled across the Border? It is the case that policing and general security along the Border has been eased. In normal circumstances we would all welcome that, but is the Minister satisfied that in the context of the dissident groups providing a more substantial threat than might have been anticipated at the time that there is adequate Border security in operation?

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