Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Ms Laura Burke:

A sum of €80,000 is included for public relations. It is for Carr Communications, which is the company we have a contract with. It provides a media monitoring service for us and also assists some of our staff. If someone is going to launch a report on the state of the environment, for example, that person will sit down with the media people from Carr Communications to consider how best to translate our scientific technical message into something understandable for people in the wider world. We are a scientific organisation with many scientists and engineers and we have to figure out how to translate our information for public consumption.