It is our corpus of anti-terrorist legislation, including the Act now under discussion, that makes these prosecutions possible. The fact that dissident organisations have been so continuously thwarted in this way is an obvious argument against the unwarranted weakening of any such legislation. The Minister of State has illustrated that the bulk of these provisions were utilised during the period under review. The statistics on the utilisation of the sections in question show that the Garda Síochána is careful and conscientious about employing the Act's provisions.