Madam, - I note the Minister for Justice, Mr Michael McDowell's belief as reported in your paper on August 29th, that the IRA will soon decommission the weapons.
In view of the increasing levels of assaults, crime, killings, muggings, stabbings, public disorder and violence in this jurisdiction perhaps it is time for the Government to consider establishing a body similar to the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD) to facilitate those especially involved in criminal, gangland and subversive activities in the Republic to render their apparently illegally held arsenal beyond use? - Yours, etc,
PETER GAUGHAN, Monkstown, Co Dublin.