Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I realise Mr. Fitzpatrick has to leave. I have a quick question relating to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. I do not mean to pick on that Department but it is project No. 1 in the Grant Thornton report and I have not got any further, so all my questions are initially about that Department. A sum of €30 million annually in savings are expected, along with a reduction of 400 staff. That €30 million will come from four areas - the number of staff retiring, the number of staff redeployed, the number of retained offices enhanced and the number of offices closed. The saving includes staff redeployed, which means staff coming off the books of the Department and not working there any more. They will come off the balance sheet and we will see a saving of their salary costs. Is that correct?