Directly hiring broadcast staff for Oireachtas not 'value for money', PAC told

The Oireachtas parliamentary schedule requires 59 camera operators shifts each week.

The Oireachtas has played down the prospect of directly hiring broadcast staff as civil servants, with a briefing provided to TDs saying it would not provide “value for money” to taxpayers.

In a letter to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Dáil clerk Peter Finnegan provides a briefing note to TDs about the possible cost of directly hiring broadcast staff as civil servants.