Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 41 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
5:10 pm
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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We are working on a specific numbers policy rather than a crude simple head count reduction. We are at the stage where there are pressure points which I am relieving in the way I indicated earlier. In the plan I published yesterday, there are good graphs on public service employment per thousand, public pay and pensions reduction through a profile from peak to the end of last year and other achievements.