Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The commitments I gave in regard to figures for additional staff for the Revenue Commissioners were that an additional 400 would be recruited by the end of this March, and we will deliver that. A further 200 will then need to be recruited and, in turn, we will deliver that as well. The 3,000 to which the Deputy referred might be the number of people who applied for these roles. There was a high level of interest in this work and we have been able to build up a large panel of employees to do this work.

In regard to what the Deputy said about Border towns, in particular, we are not planning to have staff in place to facilitate the development of infrastructure on the Border. To address her point on the ports, it is worth bearing in mind that the additional staff we are talking about recruiting for Rosslare Port will mean a significant increase in the number of staff it would have available.

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