Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Tánaiste. I do not want to jump her into something she has not agreed at Cabinet but to consider it on a personal level, in her Department. There is probably political consensus that we need extra gardaí or that we need community policing. While all the Tánaiste's priorities or spending commitments for 2017 might not yet be in place, does she think she would be ready to go to a committee in July and outline some of the priorities she might want to present to her Cabinet colleagues in the budget process? It could help the Tánaiste, and all of us, if we are more honest and open about the various options. Given that we cannot spend on everything, a balancing act is needed. The more open and honest we are about it, the less we will get involved in the kind of dog fights that happened here today about issues such as waste and water in which the Parliament was involved only after the fact.

She should get her colleagues on the justice committee that will be set up to help her to consider those spending options. Will she able to do that in July just for her own Department?

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