Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. To follow-up on the issue of the Defence Forces, the Minister states it is a piece of work on the outside perimeter. Initially, the Minister and others had stated there is not a whole pile the Defences Forces could do in these circumstance and that there was no point calling them in. The Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, told the committee the DAA is a private operation and there are plenty of private companies it can avail of before we would even look at the Defence Forces. Obviously, the big issue we have all heard about is the difficulties there may be with some of the other stakeholders and the unions that might not be particularly happy about this. The Minister would definitely need to make sure all the i's are dotted and the t's crossed. What has changed?