Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 June 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 14 - Control of Ireland's Bilateral Assistance Programme
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade

9:00 am

Mr. Ruairí de Búrca:

Sure. As we are at the end of the lifetime of the current roster, in the next two weeks a new call for applications will be made. Our intention is to try to get approximately 200 people on the roster. It will be a competitive interview process. There will be a full note on it on our website with the call for applications. We will send a copy to the committee. Language is one criterion because in some of the countries people do not speak English. We want to get good people in order that the process will be competitive. I imagine that not everybody who will apply will meet the threshold, but we hope to get 200 good people on the roster. The number of elections held per year varies, but, on average, there are around 20 electoral missions a year, either EU or OSCE missions. During the lifetime of the register we try to give everybody an opportunity, but we have to take account of language and other criteria which the organising bodies impose on us.

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