Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 October 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2013 Annual Accounts of Údarás na Gaeltachta

11:35 am

Mr. Séamus Mac Eochaidh:

One of the difficulties is that our headquarters are located in Galway, but there are Gaeltacht areas stretching from Fanad Head all the way down to west Kerry and over to Dungarvan. As there are no train or bus services to these areas, if a member of the property division needs to meet a tenant in Fanad, he or she must drive there. It is peculiar in that sense in that staff are not travelling from Galway to Dublin all the time. They are travelling from Galway to-----