Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----and that the Government's own plans were to recruit 1,000 new recruits, 700 of whom were to be Revenue and 300 of whom were to be with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. That was in July but all of a sudden in September, the Minister was a bit more low key when he announced that actually the Government was going to change its mind and that the figure was going to be reduced from 300 to 116. There has been no follow-through on that. Now the Minister is doing it in different ways. My point is the way the Minister had told us that he had all these plans in place and that he would follow through. There was no follow-through. In hindsight the earlier announcement looks very much like a public relations affair.