Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My question refers to the Minister's stated intention to reduce public sector staff numbers by 10,000 whole-time equivalents by 2015. Could the Minister set out how he intends to progress this commitment regarding these public sector worker reductions. Could he tell us how many of these he envisages coming from the health sector and whether he intends to initiate another incentivised redundancy scheme in the lifetime of this Government? Could he provide details of any new hires that are envisaged, when they will be brought into the system and where they might be targeted?

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