Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 June 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs

9:30 am

Mr. John Conlan:

That money was spent on three things. There was the first procurement process when we ran it, pulled all the documents together and did all the work on it. There was the second procurement process when we had a lot of engagement with a lot of contractors to come up with a final product. The biggest single part of that €2 million was spent on operationally mapping all the systems, processes and services within the Passport Service so we have a detailed blueprint of how all the systems fit together, which enables us to specify-----