Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 March 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Chapter 13 - Official Development Assistance

12:40 pm

Mr. Brendan Rogers:

It would also be very much an embarrassment to the applicants themselves. We would meet people before we send them out and they must provide the relevant documentation. It would become clear very quickly whether they do, in fact, have the language skills they claim to have.

The issue I think with the individual was that they felt that language should not have the same weight.