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:

This is something that will happen over time. The fact of the matter is that for €178 million, with all of this staff, websites and contracts, we are not getting value for money for the State. I know people do not like the term, but there is no whole of Government perspective. We do not necessarily communicate the things that are most important to people so we will keep going on the streamlining work and the capacity building which is training people. Politicians often say that people working on communications have no training as they might have been working somewhere completely different so training, professional development and the single identity project will keep going. I think the Deputy knows what that is, everything will have a consistent look and feel. The single web portal is an approach to eliminating these 452 different websites. That will obviously take time, the gov.ie-----