Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 July 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
9:30 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
From agencies, no. In our IT area, for example, we have a substantial number of contractors who develop our systems under the supervision of our own staff. That represents a kind of permanent cost. I am not sure what the figure is now, but it is significant. In the context of forestry licensing, for example, we would have run tenders to employ those involved in ecology services to help us with licensing.