Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 October 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Ordnance Survey Ireland Annual Accounts 2011

11:30 am

Mr. Colin Bray:

I would like to report that there has been great progress on that merger. OSi is very supportive of the process. There has been a steering group formed to drive the process comprising of three senior officials from the three parent Departments and the three chief executive officers. A number of working groups have now been established to address the merger issues and those working groups are active and making great progress.

On the timeline involved, obviously, this is a complex merger of three significant agencies with their own legislation. For the new organisation, this will require new legislation. A working group on legislation has been set up to drive that forward. I think the dependency on the timeline will be around the legislation.