Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach

9:00 am

Mr. Martin Fraser:

The first point I must make is that that is not in the 2016 account and is a matter of Government policy. However, I had expected to be asked these questions anyway. The Taoiseach asked us to set up the strategic communications unit, SCU. We tried to do so in such a way that it respected the Civil Service rules as a Civil Service unit.