The report of the Liquor Licensing Commission is timely. In that regard I compliment Gordon Holmes, whom I know well from Limerick and who will have brought his professional touch to the report which I have not read. Therefore, I can only comment on what I have read in the newspapers. However, from reading articles such as the editorial in the Irish Examiner the commission seems to have come up with many recommendations, though whether they are implemented is another issue. I was among those politicians lobbied extensively by vintners when they sought to extend opening hours but that decision was a mistake. There is a knock-on effect from those longer hours that is not just confined to Dublin and the larger cities. People go to pubs, then discos and fast food restaurants. There is now a hard core of people in every rural community who hang around the streets in the small hours. Often offences occur in a GAA field as a result of rows in the street after a nightclub closes. Much of this trouble revolves around drink.