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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: I understand that. How long have the 30 vacancies been unfilled? What is the longest that any of one those vacancies has remained unfilled?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Ms Hurley certainly can.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Now, 12 and 15 months is a long time. How many positions have been vacant between 12 and 15 months?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Perhaps we could get a note on that later through the Chair.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: How are those vacancies affecting the ability of the CSO to deliver its service? What are the risks in having those vacancies? What measures are being taken to fill those vacancies and what procedures are being used?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: I ask Mr. Dalton to hold on for a second. The CSO wants to fill 75 posts.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Are those 75 posts additional to the 30 posts that are vacant?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: The CSO, therefore, wants to fill 75 posts, including the 30 that are vacant, by the end of the year.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: That is fine. Let me go back to what was stated about the CSO saving money on consultants. I am always delighted when we save money on consultants, bearing in mind that we have the consultants for the national children's hospital beside us here. The CSO saved money and then it went back and carried out an employee engagement survey in 2017. I like to see that. I often think it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Is that in the witnesses' own department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: There was a 70% engagement rate among the CSO's own staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: What was the first one?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: I am sorry, I heard "climate change". What does Mr. Dalton mean by "involvement climate"?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: What percentage of staff feel involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: I am being a bit unfair because we are under pressure, but I really would like information on the last time there was engagement. Staff matters have nothing to do with me, clearly, but what has to do with us is accountability, governance and learning all of the time. In that context, when was the last staff engagement, what issues emerged and what was the involvement of staff rate in that?...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: If Mr. Dalton will give me just one second. I am very familiar with this. I know the CSO has got it, so I just want an outline of what it is now doing. I ask because I saw a time span for the completion of this research that concerned me. It is way in the future. When is it starting, when is it going to be completed and does the CSO have enough staff for SAVI?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: I will come back to it. My time has run out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: Other people have asked about the criteria for the Garda. It is under reservation and it is a very serious matter. We have heard the Policing Authority report today. In that context, when will the reservation be lifted? What are the criteria for lifting the reservation? I presume the CSO did not seek to do the SAVI report. Following pressure the Government took a policy decision to do...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: What are the criteria?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (11 Apr 2019) Catherine Connolly: So they are set out in the report.