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 accept that. If the Chairman does not mind I have an important point. It is an example. Of course I understand all the concerns people have and that is why I have made the recommendation I have. It is also important that if we cannot communicate in the modern world, we have a real problem. The skills that the SCU - I think all members know there is one person in particular who is very skilful at all this stuff and it is not a politician - brought to that were really important because we had to ring all the editors of all the national newspapers and in RTÉ and TV3. If we could not have done that there would have been implications. From my point of view, that is quite important. I do not want to lose that capacity. The GIS used to do that. In the days of three newspapers and one TV station, that was one or two people doing it. Now we have the online world and everything else. I will not go on about it, but it is quite important.

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