Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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The establishment of new leadership structures and the organisational review process have been progressing in each of the TUs and a business case has been submitted to our Department. The Department supports a sectoral approach to the development of senior management teams across the five TUs. Such an approach is vital. We have been engaging with the Department of public expenditure and reform on the sanction of these business cases on a case-by-case basis. In TU Dublin, the senior management team has been sanctioned and is in place. In MTU, an 11-post senior management team was sanctioned in November, although the terms of the sanction meant that MTU has only been able to make six appointments and must now seek further sanction. I met MTU about that last Friday while I was down there with the Tánaiste. For ATU, TUS and SETU, the last of which the Senator will be interested in, business cases have been submitted to the Department of public expenditure and reform for sanction and a response will come shortly.