Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister might give the House some more clarification on timelines. I accept that a process has to be gone through and that there are always knock-on effects and so on in the public service. On the other hand, it is an issue that needs to be tackled. Are we talking about an interim arrangement this year and in the long term within a full year, or what kind of timelines are we talking about? Things seem to get lost in the system and get gummed up. This is always going to happen and we hear this word “soon”, which is used and abused. The Minister might give some indication as to the finite timelines that could be involved here? If it is 18 months, can he tell us that?

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