Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Calls for all staff in the organisations to be made public servants simply cannot be agreed to by the State. Adding potentially 100,000 people to the numbers in the public service cannot be afforded by the Exchequer. Budgets were cut across the public service during the financial crisis and everyone was expected to make savings. Given that the large part of the budgets of section 39 organisations is spent on pay, the pay budget was going to be focused on.

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