Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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I appreciate that. While I know there was an increase in baseline funding for local authorities across the board in recent years, which was welcomed, as the Secretary General might know, it just did not go the full distance. A lot of local authorities are carrying out workforce plans. I see this across other State agencies as well. Does he think the carrying out of workforce plans and ultimately massively increasing staff head counts is producing greater synergies and results across our local authority network? I have a massive concern that we are hiring people for the sake of it as opposed to hiring with purpose.