Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his response but he knows the problem runs much deeper than the text of his reply suggests. There is a cultural problem, as he admitted. There is a resistance to the Garda Reserve. If there is to be a review of the reserve, I want to know the following. Who will be on the review? Who will conduct the review? Within what timeframe will they bring back their review? When Mary Harney was a Minister and I was a former Deputy, she commissioned me to do a review of company law enforcement and compliance, which we did within three months. Around the same time, the then Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy, asked me to do a review on the Central Bank structure. We did it within three months. Either the Government is serious about a review or this is a kicking the can down the road exercise. I very much fear that it is the latter.