Mr. Donnacha McKeon:

As I mentioned before, we go out there to procure. We do not procure for staff; we procure for services. We cannot be prescriptive about how their solution is presented to us. What we do is we give them a list of the employment regulations they must abide by. We also let them know that the existing employees have TUPE obligations which need to be honoured. Then we look to see what comes in. I have worked in the Oireachtas broadcasting unit for nearly ten years. There is a dispute going on between employer and employees but, beyond that, it has been an efficient workplace, it has been a happy workplace and in those ten years we have produced incredible results, incredible events, under incredible pressure from Covid and various outside things. The part-time workers are a part of that, the full-time workers are a part of that and the Civil Service team are a part of that.