Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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607. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of answering and transferring calls on their switchdesk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55431/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Since the relocation in 2010 of the Department’s Dublin-based staff to Newbridge, Co. Kildare under the Government’s Decentralisation Programme, my Department has not engaged any agency staff to provide a switchboard service.

Prior to decentralisation, my Department engaged the services of agency staff through a contract for services on a limited basis from time to time to provide temporary switchboard cover for staff absences.