Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----which is a fine summary of the work of our 315,000 public servants, to whom we are greatly indebted, across all of the key sectors of the public service - health, education, security and so on.

I wish to ask about this matter because the public service resource is our people, the men and women who are all around us in the Chamber today, in Departments and throughout the Republic. How will the great slogans and 18 actions contained in "Our Public Service 2020" operate in terms of the three pillars of the HR function, those being continuous professional development, strengthening performance management and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion? One wonders why we do not achieve equality, diversity and inclusion all the time as we recruit. How do we manage the outstanding people who work for us?

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