Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed)

10:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

In the context of budget 2017, the Minister supported a business case to provide for an additional headcount in our figures for this year and an additional €2 million for IT development that we might need to scale up our systems. It is not for major changes but to increase capacity. The allocation in budget 2017 was to facilitate the start of that work. Depending on what is the final result, we will continue over the next few years to put the case to the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform for the necessary resources to facilitate this.