Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I apologise for my late appearance but I had back-to-back meetings. I welcome the Minister and his staff to this important meeting about an important Department. I have a number of questions.
Vote 11 is for public expenditure and national development plan delivery. I know the Minister has expressed concerns about the following issue in the past, as have we all. It is crucial that we can identify the issues that are most likely to impede progress on the delivery of the national development plan. The Minister may have some of that information and some of it may still be pending. Will he elucidate further the extent to which he has been able to go around the Departments to find out the progress of national development plan projects and find a way to loosen the system to allow it to go forward?
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