Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I accept that. I hear Mr. Hume saying it is not acceptable; we all are saying it is not acceptable. It is the Government's job to try to resolve problems. As a Government Deputy, I am asking how we resolve the problem, how many more staff GSOC needs and what requests it has made to the Department. It is hard to accept the view that it is unacceptable to have these delays without seeing GSOC respond and say it needs X number of staff. I appreciate there are internal Civil Service politics and so forth, but it is very difficult to appreciate that GSOC wants to resolve this if it is not crystallising the request. Do the witnesses understand my frustration?