Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
10:00 am
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
If we look at the baseline research, it was about a number of issues, including streamlining communications. Work will continue to streamline communications across government. It was never about centralising everything in the Department because the figure of €178 million includes bodies such as An Post which is a State-owned enterprise. It should be doing its stuff totally separately. The same applies to other semi-State bodies. Certainly, it is about co-ordinating and streamlining communications to deliver savings over time. I mentioned national campaigns such as that relating to the self-employed. There is also the issue of capacity building.
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