Terry Brennan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The threat level is regarded as being severe. We all remember the tragic murder of the prison officer David Black as he travelled to his place of work last November.

I must also recall the savage killing of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in my own peninsula. He was a young man whom I knew, who had a young family and was assassinated in the course of his duty. Also in March gardaí arrested five men and recovered a firearm near the scene of the fatal shooting of Peter Butterly in my county.

I commend the Minister of State and she has my full support.