Brian Hayes (Fine Gael)

I will not address the issue of recruits as it is the subject of another amendment. I welcome the Minister's remarks on my own comments. The issue I have is how we will achieve our objectives. There are 7,000 houses in close proximity in my constituency. I suspect not one recruit of the force has come from that area in the past 20 years. The issue for this House and specifically for the Commissioner is what will he do about that.

My crude amendment was a fairly botched attempt to achieve the objective. If the Minister is stating that in his strategy statement he could do something to highlight the issue of recruitment to the Garda Commissioner to develop good strategies to get good young men and women from those communities into the force, then I am with him on that. In ten years' time, however, I want to stand up and say to the Minister who, I suspect, may be in another job——