Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I welcome the Minister and Minister of State. I have read all of the progress reports and found them very helpful. Any initiative the Government undertakes is being sucked up underneath the umbrella of the Croke Park agreement. Let me give an example from the progress report from September which states we have progressed in relation to ordnance surveys, Revenue online and data sharing. How can we attribute such progress which the Minister would want to happen at these times to specific steps under the Croke Park agreement?

I fully welcome and acknowledge the progress that has been made in relation to the Garda roster, the consultants' roster and so on, but why has it taken so long? The negotiations on the consultant contracts went on for years. The Garda roster change-----