Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am grateful to the Minister for his response but I am disappointed. However, there was one nugget of good news in the third last paragraph. My question was specifically about the uncertainty among the library staff in Leitrim who are concerned about their future and the future of the library service. The Minister has gone some way in reassuring us about the continuation of the service provided by the library. However, he only mentioned that the working group will continue its deliberations on staffing arrangements. Most of the other elements of his response are more or less the same as what I put on record and his response took a lot from the executive summary. I appreciate that he can only operate within what he knows. It seems to me that the working group's deliberations have not yet arrived on his desk. Can he give me a timeline for it? Since January there has been uncertainty but that situation should not be allowed to continue. There must be a timeline provided. Perhaps he will give some indication about it that I could pass on to staff. In his response he could reassure the library staff in Leitrim about their future.