Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have worked through those issues and have given sanction for some more staff to deal with those issues.

This is not the thin end of the wedge, this is a case of using technology to open library hours for much longer than is the case because people are working. I have seen the technology working in one of the libraries in Cork. A person is given a fob and can drop books back and collect others late into the evening when the library would normally not be open. This is using technology to extend opening hours. It is no more nor less than that. We have not rushed it. It has been a pilot project and so far it has been a great success.

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