Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. William Walsh:

I will ask our director of corporate services to cover off on our building but I will start on the second question on the increase in our budgets and the steps we have taken to ensure oversight and governance of those changes. From a human resources perspective, we have been fortunate that Government has seen fit to support the organisation with increased resources to hire people. We have a strategic HR plan that has a module looking at induction. It has been difficult with all that has happened, including people working virtually and that, to get people upskilled and trained but we have worked with our managers and heads of department to ensure our new staff are trained and fully productive in their work. We have engaged with experts who have helped us to adopt frameworks and models and surveyed staff to ensure they are clear on the roles we are asking them to do.