Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 June 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account
Chapter 13 - Revenue's Review of Medical Consultants' Tax Affairs
Chapter 14 - Research and Development Tax Credit
Chapter 16 - Deferral of Tobacco Stamp Liability

9:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

Not in my period. We went through the period of the recruitment embargo in the Civil Service, during which we went from 6,600 full-time equivalents in 2008 to 5,700 in 2012. We are now back at over 6,000. The challenge is that we are also losing a lot of people to retirement because of the age profile of the organisation. It is a challenge to lose experienced people and to integrate, train and develop new people. That is the biggest challenge facing me in my period as chairman.