Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The idea is that each Department and agency of the State operates on an employment control framework and, therefore, there are set ceilings of numbers. If there are people who do no move to the new Peoplepoint service, they are available for redeployment to cover retirements and the normal churn or turnover of staff. They are within the employment control frameworks that we have and we are fixing to save this quantum of staff through Peoplepoint alone. There will be more through the payroll shared centre as I have explained. Peoplepoint is one single centre in Clonskeagh. I do not know if the Deputy has had a chance to go out and have a look at it but it would be worth his while to do that. We have made a decision on the payroll shared service. We are going to have three in that respect because that was the most efficient way of doing it.

We had three in operation because that was the most efficient way of doing it. We have more than three now and we will migrate the work into them. They will make savings when they are fully operational. They are behind Peoplepoint, which was the first.