Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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That is fine. Turning to the topic of communications, I started off congratulating Ms Burke on that, and I still do. On page 87 of this report, however, under the heading of administration costs, more than €1 million was spent on communications. Why does that much money need to be spent on communications? The EPA produces good reports and good facts and figures that speak for themselves.