Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 41 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 5 - Management of Government Grants
Chapter 6 - Payroll Accrual for National Accounts
Chapter 7 - National Lottery Fund
10:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
We had an AP and PO competition in the past number of months. We have panels established and we will be taking people off those panels. For the principal officer post, 20% of the people on the panel are from outside the Civil Service; I think it was 25% for the AP post, therefore, 20% or 25% of people placed on those panels were from outside the Civil Service. The vast majority of people placed on panels are civil servants but, for the first time, we have a stream of people from different backgrounds entering the service.