Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will pick up on that point. In all our years here, we have never seen any State body where more than 50% of its day-to-day workforce was contracted in. I have never encountered it before. It is extraordinary. Is the Department aware of how out of sync this is with every other public body? The NTA has sanction for 140 staff, but that does not even remotely address this issue. The cost of taking this route is detrimental to everyone involved. This was Deputy Cullinane's point, though, so he might address it to the Department for a response as to why it is funding so many contract staff instead of permanent employees.

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