Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Public Service Performance Report: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Ms Caroline O'Loughlin:

I will clarify a few points. There were gaps. Data were not available at the time of publication. Since we published a few weeks ago, the online version has been updated at least twice. As the information comes in, we are capturing it. We just wanted to get the information out as soon as we could.

Long-term trends were also mentioned. In the next year or so, we are hoping to make this publication digital and to bring it online. At the moment, under the subject of impacts, we give three years of a trend. We want to be able to capture all the information since the report was established, which is more than six years ago now. We always promote this to the Departments as a tool for dialogue. It is not a scorecard. It is not something that Departments pass or fail in this year. This should be a tool for dialogue as things go on. It is not a pass or fail situation, but will, instead, inform dialogue in future.

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