The Minister acknowledged the Government's failure over the past six years to tackle crime in any meaningful way. If the justice Minister of a rainbow Government had produced statistics of crime increases of the order of 60%, 52% and 22%, the current Government parties would be wearing holes in the plinth outside Leinster House, declaring war on the Government and Minister responsible for such incidence of crime. Nothing the Minister has said convinces me that there is a Government plan and unfortunately he has to take sole responsibility for the solution to this problem. It is a multi-departmental problem which primarily involves the Departments of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Social and Family Affairs and Education and Science, although there may be others. This is an all-embracing problem the responsibility for which has been attributed to various factors by different speakers.