Mr. Raghnall Ó Floinn:

The current position is that since 2014 the National Museum has employed two contract personnel in the finance unit, an accountant and an assistant accountant to assist the museum in developing and dealing with its finances. The intention is that these contract positions will be replaced by permanent members of staff. We are aware of the Capita report. We intend to fill one of those posts, the assistant accountant, as a permanent position. We are in a recruitment phase and that post will be filled later on this year. In regard to the position of accountant, because we are in a transition period of moving to shared financial services system across the public service, we need to maintain continuity of expertise which the individual who is in the post at present has built up in the past two or three years. It is our intention that all financial management will be carried out by the museum and not by consultants.