Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

To give the Deputy a specific example in regard to Peoplepoint, it is currently providing services to 13 organisations. It is expanding quicker than we expected and 40 more are to transition between now and the end of next year. At that point the forecasted savings are reckoned to be of the order of €12.5 million per annum. From where do those savings come is the Deputy's question. It is due to a reduction of 149 full-time equivalent staff working in transactional human resource activities. There is a range of efficiencies to be achieved in that instead of approximately 60 organisations doing their own human resource management, we will have one human resource management section - Peoplepoint, a stand-alone section with everybody in it specifically trained in human resources. We have that resource to deal with all those organisations and we will do that with 149 fewer people.