Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions

11:20 am

Mr. John Moran:

A number of people joined recently. We pursued a recruitment campaign in the Department over the last year. We tried to upskill people in the areas of economics, banking and law. A number of people have come to the Department at administrative officer level from a panel that was established by the Public Appointments Service. Some of these individuals were assigned to roles in what I referred to earlier as peacetime banking policy areas.