Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Treatment delayed is treatment denied. The service plan for the recruitment to critical posts that the Minister of State stands over was denied to ensure staff were not on the books until the fourth quarter of 2014, thereby avoiding that payroll cost. Subsequent to last year's budget, the Minister of State publicly committed to ring-fencing €15 million to address the Government's failure in 2013 to protect that valuable resource for recruitment. I welcome this approach and we support A Vision for Change.

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