Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 October 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process

12:40 pm

Mr. Robert Watt:

The young people were brought today.

It is a challenge. Any organisation must have a certain percentage of people in the different age groups. That is healthy. I was in Google's premises a while ago and the median age of that company's staff is 28 and 29, although it is not comparable. People move in and out of sectors and the company does a different type of work from what we do, but certainly our age profile is not optimal. As to what we are doing, we are downsizing the system and we are changing the mix and composition. We will have more specialist staff and fewer clerical officers, COs, because as we automate the system will be different. We are trying to recruit and have started on that. Last year, we had the first administrative officer, AO, recruitment in six or seven years. We started some new AOs. We have a new competition for executive officers, EOs, now. We are trying to bring in some-----

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