Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There is an open invite on www.publicjobs.ie. We invite everyone who is interested in applying for any State position to do so, and many have and many have been accepted. The quango issue is a lovely thing to throw away, but when we specifically ask about the quangos we are talking about, we find the big expensive quangos are the IDA, Enterprise Ireland, the National Roads Authority, and the Environmental Protection Agency. They are doing incredibly important work.

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