Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Would it not make more sense to take them on on a permanent basis as opposed to employing people on a temporary basis, letting them go, then going out to recruit another cohort on a permanent basis? That is a recipe for disaster. That has happened to the RSA before. It has trained all these people. Their contracts were extended three or four times and then it let them go in the middle of a crisis, where we have all these people waiting for a driving test to happen.