Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The ODCE budget in 2017 is €4.895 million. This comprises pay of €2.834 million and non-pay of €2.057 million. The spend up to 31 August 2017 is €1.844 million. We are supporting the ODCE. The Deputy referred to staff and recruitment. The people the ODCE wishes to recruit, such as forensic accountants, have been recruited. There was an issue around making sure that it could recruit those staff. It was not a funding issue; it was a question of recruitment. I reassure the Deputy that we are supporting the ODCE in the needs of the office and recruitment. Obviously, some of those issues will probably be dealt with in the report that we have received.

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