Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

One final question, while I fully understand this is a budget meeting, where people are not offered permanent contracts where permanent jobs exist and where agency workers have been converted to directly employed staff do they break the ceiling? For example, if an agency worker costs €15 an hour and a directly employed person costs €10 an hour and two agency staff are converted can an organisation say that because it has a €10 surplus it will convert another agency post to bring in another person, or can that conversion happen only below the ceiling? There is no benefit in converting if the money is not recycled into paying personnel.