Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. John Coleman:

If we were to decide today to hire someone, typically that person would be employed somewhere else. As such, he or she would be bound by a particular notice period. I think 12 months is a reasonable timeframe for it to happen. Notwithstanding this lead-in time, real work is under way in respect of sites. We are not wasting any time in bringing on the sites to which we have access. We do not have to wait to do that work until such time as we have a staff complement of 25 in 12 months. We are working on these positions.