Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a build-up. We are all agreed it could not have been rushed on day one.

On 23 October, I put down a parliamentary question on the number of staff redeployed within local government shared services over the past three years. The reply from the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government stated his Department does not collate the redeployment data as requested. How can the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government know what is going on when he does not even collect the data? How can the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Cabinet sub-committee know what is going on if the data is not collected? The Minister stated information is not collected up to grade 7 but grade 8 is done across the Public Appointments Service. There is a massive gap in the information on who wants to move in Departments and even in sections. A local manager can veto staff going to shared services and this causes problems which need to be addressed.

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