Page 55 of the programme for Government commits to timely access to orthodontic care. More than 7,500 children who availed of public orthodontic services in Dublin are to have their files reviewed. Many of these children were left irreversibly damaged after services were withdrawn in the mid-1990s. A report commissioned in February 2015 found that patient safety was put at risk and recommended a wider review, which is now under way. Experts at the time worked under the agreement that the report would be published in full, but that has not happened. In reply to a parliamentary question tabled by Deputy O'Reilly in December 2018, the Minister committed to releasing an update on this issue in February 2019. It is now April 2019, but no report has been published to date. Will the Minister, Deputy Harris, publish the 2015 report and the wider review in full? Will he give a date for publication? If not, why not?

I cannot currently answer those questions. They are probably best raised directly with the Minister for Health. I understand it is a report of the HSE and not the Department of Health, so it may not be within the authority of the Minister to publish it. Obviously, as is always the case with reports, if they pertain to certain individuals there may be issues with their publication. I am advised that the HSE has initiated a comprehensive audit of more than 7,500 patient files available from that period and that dedicated funding and personnel have been allocated by the HSE for that work.

A Programme for a Partnership Government commits to ensuring a strong and visible police force in every community. Yesterday, there was a shooting outside a school in the constituency of the Taoiseach and my colleague, Deputy Burton. It was an outrageous incident involving a gunman shooting at a man collecting a pupil from the school. It is incredibly lucky that such a reckless assault did not result in fatalities or serious injuries. It follows on from recent incidents in Drogheda and elsewhere. According to my colleague, Senator Nash, there appears to be a clear lack of resources in Drogheda. There has been an escalation in such shootings and other gangland crimes, which appear to be happening with impunity. We must not allow this to become the norm. What is the Government specifically doing about this? Will it take on these escalating attacks? We need to know whether this is a resource issue. Has the Government discussed that with An Garda Síochána? How will the Government and the Minster for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, respond?

I too am very shocked by the shooting that occurred yesterday outside Riversdale Community College on Blanchardstown Road North in my constituency. My constituency agent is visiting the school today to see if there is any way we can help or any additional supports we can provide. I hope to visit the school in the coming days. I know it well and know people who attended it. It must have been a very frightening occurrence for its pupils. I very much commend the principal and staff for taking swift action to lock down the school. It is a blessing that nobody was hurt in the incident and that the gunman did not succeed in entering the school grounds.

The incident is related to an ongoing feud, as the Deputy will be aware. There is a turf war involving drug dealers in the area. Yesterday, I sought a report from the Minister for Justice and Equality, who told me that significant inroads have been made in tackling this feud. There are high visibility controls in the area and have been for some time. Specialist Garda units, including the Garda dog unit, have carried out searches in Corduff with the assistance of the armed support unit for the region. The searches have resulted in the seizure of five sawn-off shotguns as well as other weapons and a quantity of controlled drugs. This is a significant operation and the Garda will continue to monitor and disrupt the activity of these criminal gangs. I encourage anyone in the area or elsewhere who has information about the incident to, please, contact the Garda and pass on the information in order that it can be dealt with.

For one and a half years, the residents of Leeside Apartments in Cork fought attempts by their vulture fund landlord to evict them into homelessness. Late last week, the residents discovered that they had been victorious when news broke that the apartments had been purchased by the Clúid housing association and that in addition to those 13 families keeping a roof over their heads, a further 59 families are to be taken off Cork City Council housing waiting lists and provided with new homes at Leeside.

The programme for Government promises improved tenants' rights. This was discussed by the residents when I met them last Friday night. They sent messages of solidarity to the residents of Exchange Hall in Tallaght, who are facing similar circumstances, and they asked me to send a message to the Dáil. The message is simply that they wish that no other group of residents should ever have to go through what they have gone through with their families and children over the past eight months and that the Dáil should, as a matter of urgent priority, pass legislation to ban the practice of evicting people, including families and children, into homelessness. What does the Minister say in response to the residents' appeal, request and message?

I thank the Deputy for relaying that message from his constituents.

I welcome his acknowledgement of the excellent work done by Clúid, as a housing body, in taking people off the local authority housing list and putting them into homes. I do not believe the Deputy recognised before that it is an important player in the provision of social housing up and down the country. As the Taoiseach has said before, we use every means at our disposal to get people into homes, be it through local authorities, housing bodies, Part V arrangements, leasing or taking homes out of vacancy. What those coming off the housing list or out of emergency accommodation want is a home and they are not going to become ideological about who is providing it, be it the local authority or housing body.

With regard to the issue the Deputy raised on protecting tenants' rights, the Taoiseach alluded to our agreeing at Cabinet yesterday a significant number of new measures to protect tenants in accommodation. The document will be published with the amendments as they go before the joint Oireachtas committee before Committee Stage next week. We are taking a series of steps, not just in respect of rent pressure zones but also under section 34. I refer to the notice to quit, how it is enforced by the Residential Tenancies Board and the extended notice periods. The information will be published very shortly.