As many children are coming on to drugs at school, will the Minister consider providing protection for school-children even though it might mean moving gardaí from banks which contain only money which is not destroying people's lives? Would the Minister also consider that the political will must be there to tackle and to solve the crime problem? Can he tell us when the junior Ministers' report on the drugs problem which has been undertaken in the last few months will be available? Would he consider either meeting the Dublin Deputies or doing a special study of the drugs problem in the Dublin area where the problem is more serious than elsewhere? Would he undertake to examine the efficiency of the Garda, regardless of the numbers patrolling the streets?

(Limerick East): A special Ministerial task force on drug abuse have virtually completed their work and the report is available to the Government. I suggest this might be an appropriate report for the new Select Committee to discuss at an early date. I will be looking at the specific recommendations in that report in so far as they relate to my Department. On the question of protection for schoolchildren, I am not clear about the kind of protection the Deputy has in mind. Obviously, in any caring community children should be protected by the entire adult community from exploitation and abuse, and if there is evidence of schoolgoing children being exploited by drug pushers, the recommendations in the report of the Ministerial task force will contribute to the solution of that problem.

The deployment of gardaí is a matter for the Commissioner. I approve of the changes he has made in deployment. The efficiency of the Garda concerns us all. I share the views of Deputies that we should try for maximum efficiency in the Garda.