Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

It is a very serious issue. The National Shared Services Office, NSSO, is responsible for payroll for civil servants and officeholders. The Minister has commissioned an external audit to go into the NSSO to examine in a much more comprehensive, forensic and detailed way the issues that have arisen. There needs to be further validation of what has emerged, particularly in terms of the 13,000 civil servants, and to see if there are other issues that need to be dealt with. That external audit needs to happen and we need to see the results of that.

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