Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport

9:00 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

I will answer the question at a general level. The Department radically reduced its number of employees under the employment control framework. That has posed a challenge to how we operate. In that sense, it is disappointing to see that we did not manage to spend our entire pay budget. Not that it is a target, but the reason is-----