There is also a money message.

We will conclude with a short question from Deputy Burton.

The shooting incident at Riversdale community college-----

We dealt with that.

-----was preceded six or eight weeks ago by similar episodes at the primary school in the Corduff area. Will the Taoiseach commit to Dublin communities, which have been racked by an upsurge in drug crime and which do not have enough community policing? Community policing seems to have vanished. We have lost our community policing inspector in Dublin West after the previous incumbent was not replaced.

Thankfully, no one was injured at the other shooting at the primary school in Corduff but what will happen next time?

The Taoiseach to respond.

That school has a limited counselling service for pupils. The young pupils, their parents and the teachers are terrified because the kids are going to and from schools where there have been shooting episodes. The counselling service has been threatened with withdrawal. Will the Taoiseach undertake to use his office to ensure that the schools in our constituency, such as the one in Corduff, which has a small counselling service can keep it and that it will not be taken away?

Does the Taoiseach wish to expand on his earlier response?

That is very much a constituency question but an important one nonetheless. I visited Ladyswell national school last week and met with the principal and the board of management. We discussed issues around its counselling service, which I understood had been shared between Ladyswell and Corduff, but was being funded out of the school completion programme. There seemed to be an issue with funding counselling out of the school completion programme but I am having this examined.

The number of gardaí is increasing all the time. The force is now over 14,000.

I asked about community gardaí.

It is a matter for the Commissioner to decide how those 14,000 are best deployed.

Let me say again, there are ten minutes. The parties and groups should look at this and not abuse this segment.