Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Special Report No. 87 - Effectiveness of Audit Committees in State Bodies
Issues with Public Procurement
10:00 am
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Value for money reviews and so on are now a standard part of the vocabulary and I will come to procurement issues shortly, which is where the focus of my questioning will be.
I have a separate question, however, which may be more appropriate to the Minister. We debated in committee the Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017. It struck me in parts as a work of fiction. For instance, the forecast for health spending is entirely unrealistic.
The Minister has announced an open forum - a consultative process one presumes - to explore in an inclusive and all-hearing manner issues relating to taxation reform, spending and so on. How does that sit side-by-side with the expenditure plans that have been already hammered out?
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