Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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171. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide funding for the appointment of extra full-time forensic accountants and extra full time financial crime analysts for the Criminal Assets Bureau; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30771/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The resources of the Bureau are kept under ongoing review by both the Criminal Assets Bureau and my Department.

With regard to staffing in the Bureau Analysis Unit of the Bureau, I can inform the Deputy that my Department has been in consultation with the Chief Bureau Officer to agree the proposed recruitment process for the filling of both a forensic accountant vacancy and a financial crime analyst vacancy. In this regard, arrangements are being made to proceed with recruitment through the Public Appointments Service.

More generally, I can inform the Deputy that an additional €0.5m in funding for the Bureau was announced in Budget 2017 which will go towards essential staffing requirements.