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:

I hope the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is not listening. The figure of 40 was not arrived at as a result of a detailed exercise where we said it will take X number to do that. It was put forward to give us the headroom in our numbers to put experienced people and some inexperienced people in the team to plan the scope-----