Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works

2:00 pm

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is great. Given that in Ms McGrath's contribution she mentioned a culture of continuous improvement in the course of business transformation, she is obviously minded towards measurement and targets. It is all there in the mix. As a member of the committee and the Oireachtas, to have precisely this slice of reporting before us would be very useful. It would not be a mechanism to gainsay or disregard everything else but would give us the basis to identify outputs in a forensic way. It is how we should proceed. While I am not privy to the discussions Ms McGrath had with the secretariat and officials, this is what I understand the objective to be. We are getting a very precise take regarding output while also considering costs, internal milestones, dynamics, etc. I noticed the spending head for training and development, which is a very important key component of what the OPW does and I would like to keep an eye on it and know about it, although it would not fall within this formula. Is that fair enough?

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