This is an old issue, and one on which the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Budgetary Control a
re in step, even if some of us are not entirely of the same opinion. We would like these
externalised tasks to be really externalised, because they are of a temporary nature and because they require the use of temporary or specialist staff, but we do not want them to be externalised simply
because they would cost ...[+++] less because they would be using less well paid and less qualified staff.