Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I was anxious, because Deputy Ó Cuív seemed to think I did not want to give him a full reply, that I gave him the fullest reply possible.

There is one other issue Deputy Ó Cuív raised which I can deal with briefly, that is, costing issues. On the figures I gave, in 2011 some €23 million was spent on the RDF and the changes will reduce the expenditure to €11 million. In the context of the PDF, there was a cadre of members of the PDF whose sole duty was to service an RDF of 9,500 that was never achieved.