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

In 2005, someone must have come to the table requesting additional staff because we were spending far too much of the budget on overtime to fill these gaps. It would have been argued that it would have been cheaper to hire staff than continuing to pay more than 10% of the salary budget just to cover the additional hours. Somebody must have suggested it would have been cheaper to get more people into the system.