Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works

9:30 am

Mr. John Conlon:

As the Deputy suggests, we do use both our own resources and contractor resources just to have sufficient capacity to deal with what we have to deal with. One of the challenges we are facing, both within our own staff cohort but also in the contracted service providers we have, is the procurement of the specialist civil engineering staff, which is a problem we are trying to address. We are bringing in civil engineer interns. We are running training programmes. We are going into colleges to try to get more in. That is one marked challenge for us, but it is also a challenge for the contracted providers we have. We are liaising closely with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. As I said, we are using internships. We are using graduate programmes to make us an employer choice in that space. We are having some slight success, but we are keeping at it.

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