Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is doing important work. We have a huge set of reform measures, with more than 200 implemented. I know that abolishing or burning a quango makes for a nice tabloid headline, but the real hard work is to save €500 million on procurement over three years, which are we going to do. We will save €127 million this year. To save an additional €1 billion on public pay took six months of hard graft through the Haddington Road agreement. We have established a new Civil Service human resource and pensions shared service centre, PeoplePoint. That is now well on the way to being fully operational and will save €12.5 million every year.

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