Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres
11:30 am
Mr. Cecil Beamish:
They were different people from the people there in 2006 because with the decentralisation in 2006 to 2007, the officers all changed. In 2007 those people who were in the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources on the harbours division side and the sea fisheries administration side who were new transferred to the Department of Agriculture. The accounts people in the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources and the billing, legal and all the back-up sections in that Department never transferred to the Department of Agriculture. The Department of Agriculture took it over from the existing people that it had and it took on these functions as central functions.