Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 June 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs
9:30 am
Mr. John Conlan:
We have kind of got the hurdle now. There were four different competitions to get to where we are and it is a detailed process. We are delivering the people now. I know they are coming in. Many have come in only recently, so we did not have all those people for the whole year. We have to train them. I have met some of them and, in fairness, they really are enthusiastic and learning quick, but there is a learning process. We have to protect the integrity of the Irish passport, and we do that with our training and systems.
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