Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
Mr. Paul McNally:
That administrative subhead is a mishmash of different expenses. As the Minister said, we have a few attachés returning this year and there will be costs associated with that. Obviously, attachés will be going out to replace them. The entire increase is not attributable to the attachés; there would be different increases. There is the training and development of new staff coming into the Department. The training budget has gone up. There would be different expenses covered there, including advertising costs. For one or two of the HR systems, there would be increased service level costs associated with the IT systems in there.