Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I should say to the Minister that at a private session today we agreed to review the Ministers and Secretaries Act. He mentioned a further Act of 1997. We would welcome any background materials that he might have regarding those Acts, how they were changed or how the Minister might like to see them changed or reformed in the future. This is because most of what we are talking about goes back to accountability and responsibility. It is time that many of those Acts, as well as other amending Acts, were taken and examined in the context of modern HR management and of the responsibilities of senior people within any organisation, just as we are doing with the senior executive accountability regime and the banks. Of course, it is always a point of interest for me that I clock in every day that I come up here. Does the Minister think that the Secretaries General should clock in, the same as everyone else, or are they an exempt breed?
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