Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I do not know the answer to the Deputy's question. When an agency is contracted to provide staff, I do not know whether it is possible to identify the individual workers involved and-or whether it is legal to state a certain person cannot fill a particular position. In general terms, there is a disallowance in respect of persons who retire to formally return to the Department in which they were formerly employed. I do not know how it would be possible to deal with agency workers on a structured basis.

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