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:

In the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The strategic communications unit became involved in gov.ieas part of the overall reform of communications. Therefore, gov.iewill still continue, but, obviously, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has a wider role in the management of the Civil Service in terms of renewal and reform. It will certainly work with us on the changes we still want to make. It is a two-hander. As I said, I find myself dealing with communications matters out of necessity and it has been like that under every Government. The GIS is in the Taoiseach's Department and cannot actually be located anywhere else. The people who want to deal with us want to deal with the Taoiseach's Department and the Government. That is the way it has always been done.