Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 91 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Management of Severance Payments in Public Sector Bodies

1:30 pm

Mr. Robert Watt:

I will comment on some of the other things we are doing to try to reduce the risk of this happening in terms of our recruitment process. When we are recruiting, we have an enhanced process whereby we engage in very detailed testing of people. We have several interviews. We invest an awful lot more in the recruitment process now than perhaps was the case in the past. We have a much more professional HR within and outside Government Departments. We try to address problems early and we have more professional HR people who intervene. We have a more developed performance management system which we identify at the start. We are actively managing probation more than we used to in the past. It really is around HR and we have put in a great deal of effort in recent years to try to become more effective at HR.

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