Recruitment freeze in state services

A HUGE range of state services including hospitals, schools and Garda resources will be effected by a recruitment freeze on public workers lasting until at least the start of 2010.

The decision was last night described as “devastating” by teachers who will be subjected to the embargo along with other front-line staff such as nurses and doctors.

All Government Departments were issued with a letter from the Department of Finance yesterday, following a cabinet decision on the issue last weekend.