Parks and wildlife service set for revamp with money and staff allocated in new plan 

Ministers Darragh O'Brien and Malcolm Noonan at the launch of the Strategic Action Plan for the National Parks and Wildlife Service

A €55m investment in the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) will see the "early recruitment" of 60 key staff.

The Government has today published a Strategic Action Plan for the NPWS that sets out a timeline for a full organisational restructuring of the service.