I accept in part what the Minister has said and I fully accept that the responsibility for the elimination of vandalism on our city streets cannot be put wholly on the Garda. I must ask the Minister to accept that the absence of a high degree of community policing and the absence of the man on the beat in certain city streets is an element that created the kind of environment in which vandalism can take place. The Minister must feel that he has a responsibility to look at the role the Garda must play in the elimination of vandalism. Surely we have not arrived at a stage where we are beginning to accept that there is a tolerable level of vandalism and violence against property and against the person as we seem to have done in Northern Ireland.

The Deputy is taking a long time to ask this question.

If the Deputy had been listening when I gave a very comprehensive reply to questions in this regard she would have been far more enlightened and she probably would not have said what she has said.