Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
10:20 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
We made an application in the Estimate for 2015 for an increase in resources, specifically to increase staffing at the senior management level. Last year and this year, we asked a retired deputy director to come back to help clear some of the backed-up accounts. We got agreement from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to increase our resources, but not as much as we wanted. We are having discussions with the Department officials tomorrow in regard to how we may apply those resources, because while we get the resources, we must also get permission to use them the way we want. That discussion takes place tomorrow. We continue to work and push on this issue and will welcome any support we get.