Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I refer to individuals who retire and are re-hired by agencies. I note the HSE spent more than €200 million in 2012 on agency doctors and nurses. It is not known how many of them may have been public sector retirees. Will the Minister confirm the figures for each Department in which employees who availed of retirement before February 2012 have been re-employed on an agency basis to do the same job? It would not be deemed very fair if this was a widespread practice.

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