Averil Power (Fianna Fail)

I wish to raise two issues in response to what the Minister said. I made the point yesterday about Garda vetting and the fact that we have still not dealt with the existing teachers. As the Minister is fully aware, while the Government is committed to overall targets under the EU-IMF framework, there is discretion within the targets and it is unfair to claim that we cannot act in an area as important as Garda vetting because of the EU-IMF deal. We tend not to be party political in this House. That point is not true and it is unfair to make it.