Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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That is not the only issue. There is a range of issues I have to engage with now, around retention in particular. I envisage looking at all of those in a one-set approach. What tends to happen here is, over the years, all these issues get into a sort of engagement, either conciliation and arbitration, or a kind of a big ping-pong, an ongoing discussion between the Departments of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and Defence. However, I am making the point that the crisis is such that we have to move much faster. I will not give the Deputy a timeline. There is a process in place and I have to engage in it. This is not the only issue. There is a range of issues.