Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform

Mr. Kevin Meaney:

That is correct, yes. At strategic assessment stage, we have subsumed those requirements as part of the preliminary business case. When a Department or agency comes forward at preliminary business case stage, we will ask to see the strategic assessment completed as part of the wider preliminary business case. That should then go to an external assurance review and then to us and the major projects advisory group.