Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)

I appreciate that. We should compliment the Minister on overturning the moratorium in respect of the RDF. Obviously, he does not have exact figures, but could he give the Dáil a ballpark estimate of the number of RDF places that might become available for recruitment in the course of the year? I understand that quite a number of people were well down the road of the recruitment process, which is long and drawn out, when the moratorium was introduced. Would it not be fair and equitable that those people be given priority for whatever places might become available during the year?

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