Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge the issue of suppressed posts does not come under Ms Murphy-Fagan's remit and she may be unable to answer this question but she may be able to provide general information. If a Department or an office transfers the function to the NSSO and 30 of its staff were involved in payroll and HR services, how do we know some of those posts have not been suppressed? Some staff, for example, may be redeployed but if there is no redeployment and there is no work in the Department, some posts could be suppressed. It is not up to the NSSO to check on the suppressed posts but this is one way of knowing whether the savings happen. If the NSSO takes on numbers, there should be a reduction somewhere else.