Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
1:00 pm
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I accept we are only dealing with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform today, but it is coincidental that the Minister present is the Minister centrally involved. The same will happen at all the other Oireachtas committees dealing with Estimates in coming weeks. As the Minister has said it would make logical sense to come back with a revision of those figures later. He wants to pass these with the rejected Croke Park II recommendations in them. However, they cannot stand up as the final agreement because they have been rejected. If the Minister believes in democracy, he will accept that and come back with a revision of those figures later. I am saying he should have brought to the committee today the Estimates not including the Croke Park II proposals. He should have dealt with the rest of his Estimate which was not contentious and had not been rejected by the public servants and, as he said, come back at a later date to discuss that element of the €300 million that affects his Department, as he seems willing to do. He should just remove the Croke Park II element from this today.
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