Feargal Quinn (Independent)

When the State was founded, we established a Garda force that was unarmed. Ten or 20 years ago, if a murder took place in the State in which a gun was involved, it received banner headlines. What happened recently in Kilkenny was very sad, but even more threatening is what happened in Finglas this morning. I know both areas very well. There are many scared people not only in Finglas but in Dublin because of what happened this morning.

I would not be surprised at reprisals or at calls for different steps to be taken. We have a debate on policing tomorrow. That is the occasion to focus to see whether we can help to ensure that the police force which was established in the State so many years ago has the ability to achieve what it set out to do, namely, to protect its citizens. Am I correct in saying the debate takes place here tomorrow afternoon?