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)
1:55 pm
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source
We have not got the benefit of it yet because we are only bedding in the shared service but these are vacancies we are not filling. It is a head-count reduction. The shared services programme is a very important one for a number of reasons. We will do more with fewer bodies. We will save in payroll but we will also have a much more integrated and efficient system.
We have done it in terms of human resource management. We are looking at financial services. We will have a much more integrated payroll system, which will be centralised in three centres as opposed to the multiplicity of centres that are currently handling public sector payroll. Procurement will be better centralised as well.
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