Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If I can just come back in for a moment, Mr. Crowley mentioned legislation that states the Civil Service should do something. I bet if we got a report from the Civil Service, the box would be ticked in some way - the usual vague way these things happen. However, if we counted the numbers, we would find it would be virtually zero. That is what I am talking about when we come to making hard recommendations the next time. They need to be much more specific. We need to remove the flowery language and we need to get delivery. Getting actual numbers in is the only measurement that counts and not various kinds of actions. I have seen this in many facets of Irish society.

I wish the witnesses luck with the review. I hate to say it, but I am becoming very cynical in taking the view that reviews are a great way of putting things on the long finger. More reviews are done and things are set up. Then after two years another review is done. We seem to spend more time waiting for reviews than actually making decisions and getting on with it. Most solutions are quite easy. We need to get another 100 CSP projects up and running. A certain percentage of those should be mixed, but a certain percentage should be specific for the Traveller community. We need to just make hard decisions and get on with it. We are analysing the problem too much. The answers are obvious; we should just do it.

I apologise for interrupting, but I get very frustrated that we are not getting the job done for the people who are looking for the services. We could fill an ocean with paper. We must be destroying forests with documents.