Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There have been issues with mobility. As we have not been recruiting to the Civil Service, there is a reluctance to cede staff, particularly skilled staff, to projects like this. If there is to be a common shared services centre in human resources management, all the human resources experts in a Department might migrate out of it and managers might not want to lose them. It will improve once recruitment improves as well. I will give some further consideration to having a comprehensive overview of the progress of shared services because they are an important feature of the reform programme.

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