Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

I wanted to mention the value of the central units in making decisions. When, for example, the SR Technics redundancies came on stream, all of those, instead of going to local offices, went to the Finglas central unit and the decisions were made there. The same happened in the case of Dell and the applications from there went immediately to Sligo. These central offices were able to deal with bulk applications efficiently, which freed up the local offices.

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