Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Chapter 6 - Covid-19 Restart Grant Schemes

9:30 am

Mr. Declan Hughes:

There is, yes. As the Secretary General mentioned earlier, there is engagement, whether it is with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in terms of the meat and dairy sector, the Department of Health or the Department of Transport. All of the sectors would have had an input to that review which was done recently and published at the end of October. The Secretary General talked about HGV drivers, agricultural workers, horticultural workers and so on. That was all fed into that review process, which was undertaken by the Department and informed by the expert group on future skills needs. It is not my area directly but that is the position. We would be happy to brief the Deputy separately on it.