Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 March 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Chapter 13 - Official Development Assistance

12:40 pm

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I find it odd that language and experience would be given the same weighting. One can easily check whether an applicant really has been on X number of monitoring missions. In respect of language skills, I assume applicants provided some documentation, but they are not tested. If it is subsequently found, when they are assigned to a particular monitoring mission, that they do not have the desired language skills, there is potential embarrassment there for the Department.

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