Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

5:35 pm

Photo of Brendan HowlinBrendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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An exchange means that one gets to finish one's answer. The final point the Deputy made related to agency workers. Of course the 15 million additional hours we have negotiated through the Haddington Road agreement will allow a reduction in agency workers and overtime and premium rates because people can be deployed at their normal working time in a more rational way. There is no contradiction between the two at all.