In the Minister's initial reply he said that the Garda take full account of these events when they occur in order to provide for them in the future. I question that statement. Some months after the Glasgow Rangers match I was present outside Dalymount Park at the Ireland-Italy match and Garda personnel were almost non-existent, where the gates before the match had to be opened to prevent people from being crushed to death and where all of the money from a number of the turnstiles was taken in an armed robbery. All of that took place in an environment of absolute chaos. I drove around the ground on that occasion. Will the Minister ensure that for major matches in the future sufficient gardaí are present both outside and inside Dalymount Park to prevent a recurrence of these events? The Garda did not take full account of the events at the Glasgow Rangers match as was borne out a few months later at the Ireland-Italy match.

(Limerick East): There is not much one can say in reply to that intervention. It is an operational matter. I know the Garda take account of past experience when they are making arrangements. Probably it would be inappropriate for a lay person to decide on the deployment of gardaí. Even in the comments made last night which were published in the newspapers today there is a suggestion that it might not be a good idea to have extra men in uniform inside the stadium because it might lead to greater aggression and that the proper deployment would be on the access routes to the stadium. I am not familiar with the detail of what the Deputy has now said but I know that there was a concentration on the access routes to Dalymount on the particular day.