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 Government decision to establish the unit was made in September. It set out all of the things the unit was supposed to do. We then had to recruit people to carry out that work. We had to engage various people to fulfil various contracts which were set up. That took a while. In December the Government agreed the roll-out of the unit's identity, the migration of websites and priority campaigns, as well as some of the things I talked about earlier such as consolidation and continuous professional development. Some surveys, research and insight were supposed to be done but that never really got going. Some work was done and some was not. It was not fully active for more than a few months.