Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am making the same point, irrespective of which service I give as an example. Let us say five people are dealing with human resources or payroll in an organisation and those functions are transferred to Peoplepoint or payroll shared services, those five people are no longer required to do that work in the organisation as it is now being done centrally. Those five people will be subsumed somewhere else in the organisation to do other work, perhaps because a person has left some other section. Where is the saving in that exercise? It is not as if there are five fewer people in the public service. As those five people are now doing some other work, where is the saving?