Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

I thank the Minister for his reply. I have been trying to get his reaction to the McCarthy report for some time and his position up to now has been that its recommendations were in the mix in the budgetary discussions. The budget has come and gone. The McCarthy report contains a huge wodge of proposals relating to his Department and I am not clear from his reply which of them he is taking on board and which he is not. It is manifest that the bulk of the savings in the Garda Vote are pay-related. Will the Minister put into effect any of the reforms suggested in the report? Other than the reference he made to programmes dealing with the abolition of graffiti and so on, none of the areas covered by the report was mentioned in the Minister's reply.

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