Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach

9:00 am

Mr. Martin Fraser:

I cannot speak for the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, but it has a role in everything. The reason the Department of the Taoiseach has a more prominent role is it has the Government press office. For as long as there has probably been a Government, the Government Information Service, GIS, has been in the Taoiseach's Department; obviously, therefore, it has a very important role. We have an important role across government, the same as the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. I work very closely with my colleagues in it. We did make this communications reform project part of the Civil Service renewal plan and are going to keep going. We have a group of assistant secretaries working on it and, as I said in the report, will keep working on the things that are still going ahead.

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