Séamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

I have a couple of quick questions and I ask that the answers to them be brief. Regarding recruitment and trying to build up the numbers, I was contacted by someone who had to resign from the force for family reasons but is now seeking reinstatement. The individual's application has been before Garda management for several months. The person believes the application is bundled together with those of three or four other people seeking to come back to the force. Why are these applications taking so long to process? We are talking about fully trained gardaí and it is important to get them back operational as soon as possible.