The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin has described the shooting dead of two men in Dublin last night as appalling, and an absolute lack of respect for human life.
He said the Minister for Justice, Brian Lenihan, will meet senior gardaí to discuss any new measures that are required for the investigation.
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to the double killing in south Dublin.
Up to ten bullets were fired at the victims in Walkinstown shortly before 10pm.
It is believed that one gunman on a motorbike drove up to the back of a house and garage on Greenhills Road and targeted a garage owner and one of his employees believed to have been a salesman.
The garage owner's mother and his two of his children were in the house at the time of the murders. His six-year-old son ran to him after he was shot.
Both men were pronounced dead on admission to hospital.
One of the victims is a 40-year-old man from Tallaght and the other is 24-year-old man from Clondalkin.
The garage owner was known to the gardaí.
Officers say it is still too early to identify a motive.
Fine Gael Deputy Leader, Richard Bruton, called for a review of policing methods to tackle organised crime.
He said it would take the sort of concerted garda effort that followed the murder of the journalist Veronica Guerin in 1996.
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