Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I do not doubt that Department had, and has, an enormous amount to do. Everything has been located in one Department. Even if there has been an increase in staff numbers, they have had to be moved around to make sure that payments were made, where there is a regime around payments being made on time and so on. This should be cross-Government. That is where we will start to see pressure being taken off that one Department. We are starting to see it in things like that coming through.