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- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Is Mr. Fraser also aware-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Why was it not used?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Fraser can understand why people would then-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: It was not used. Whose decision was it in the end not to use it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: So Mr. Fraser would have-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: I know it did not happen. So it was the civil servants, themselves, who said, "We're not using this."
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Okay. Did Mr. Fraser express that concern or articulate that view?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Brian Murphy stated that the cost of Government rebranding through the SCU could be enormous with a budget of €5 million for the purpose of streamlining Government communications. Does Mr. Fraser agree with that comment? What mechanisms were put in place to ensure that communications were not duplicated between the SCU and other Departments to avoid costs and unnecessary wastage?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: I return to the metrics and how we measure how successful the SCU was in terms of messaging. One of the purviews of the SCU is that it was not confined to Departments but also extended to the activities of what is referred to as "Government of Ireland". Given that these activities are so broad, it is almost impossible even to put a definition on "Government of Ireland". What metrics were...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: What does Mr. Fraser mean by "survey the citizens as to what they think about the Government"?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Just to be clear, the survey will ask questions such as what people know about the role of Government and the various Departments. It will not be asking people what their opinion of Government is, because that is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Asking that question is more or less asking people what their opinion of Fine Gael is.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: How hands-on was-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Okay. How hands-on was the Taoiseach in the messaging?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: What about the childcare subsidy scheme?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Therefore, he was pretty hands-on.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018) Jonathan O'Brien: Was it just that one?