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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 31 Oct 1974

Vol. 275 No. 5

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - State and Semi-State Companies' Staffs.

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asked the Minister for the Public Service if there are any standards for establishing the ratio of administrative to production staff in State and semi-State companies; and, if not, if he will have the activities of those companies analysed to establish such standards.

I have doubts as to whether standards of the type envisaged by the Deputy could be generally applied except as very crude yardsticks. Furthermore, because the management of State-sponsored bodies has been assigned by statute to the board of each body there is no provision for the application to them of general standards of this kind. Such application would entail a new approach, probably entailing changes in the legislation governing these bodies. The issues raised by the Deputy are, nevertheless, kept in mind by my Department in the course of their continuing search for measures to improve the effectiveness of the organisation of the public service.

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