Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes, or a rehash of the same. I appreciate that.

The issue has been the continual use of people on a temporary basis. Permanent contracts need to be found for people for a whole range of reasons, including to allow them to plan their lives and have permanent employment. In many instances, we find when talking about such bodies as the RSA that they continually put it back on the Department by saying they have to wait for sanction and so forth. Perhaps there is truth in that and if so, it is put into the political process where we can put pressure on. We will certainly, as a committee and as individual Members of the Oireachtas, commit to doing so. It is important that we get a permanent workforce in place and that as a consequence we get the test times down, so that a better service is provided to the public. I commend Mr. Creaney on that. I will not get into it any more.

I do not have any questions. However, I assure the witnesses and their members of our commitment to trying to resolve this issue.