asked the Minister for Energy if employment agencies are being used by his Department to recruit workers on a full-time or part-time basis; if his Department or any semi-State body under the aegis of his Department have used agency staff in the past 12 months and for what grade of worker, i.e. manual, clerical, technical; and if he will state in respect of such staff over the last 12 months (a) the name of the agencies; (b) the number of staff hired; (c) the cost per head to the State and (d) the total amount paid by his Department.
Written Answers. - Staff Recruitment.
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My Department do not use employment agencies to recruit staff. So far as the semi-State bodies under the aegis of my Department are concerned, the recruitment of staff is a matter of day to day administration for bodies themselves, and one in which I have no function.