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
Long since past, some Departments have had to dig deeper into this system to identify the cause or causes of inflation. It was not always possible to find them because some areas had decided that because it was trendy to have inflation at the time, everybody should avail of it. That is me putting my construct on it. The point is there was evidence that inflation was being pumped to suit certain situations, etc. Purely on the basis that it is popular now to do it everybody is doing it. We need more than that. If it should happen, further investigation must be undertaken into that area. I think it would be a good graft to find out the precise cause of inflation in each case, particularly for major components. I ask for that to be kept in mind and probably it has been done already.
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