Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The question of examining the possibility of redeployment as distinct from voluntary redundancy or voluntary early retirement is being examined by the committee set up to consider public service numbers. The Minister for Finance has instructed the committee to work on this matter. It has been dealing with approximately eight Departments to date. It is an issue that we could investigate when the times comes to deal with the agency concerned.

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