Public Sector Reform Review
Dail Éireann — 2020-09-29
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

To follow on from our earlier discussion, the way in which services can be maintained on a four-day week, whether in schools, local authorities, hospitals or anywhere else in the public service, while keeping those services, is by recruiting more people, such as more teachers, nurses, local authority workers or youth and community workers. I want to know that we are going to go in the direction of recruitment to provide high-quality public services, rather than the cuts and understaffing that plague our public services.

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Sitting date: 2020-09-29