Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

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

Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Mr. David Moloney:

We always look to see if there are ideas there but our trust-in-Government figures in these surveys are very high. Our ranking on the traditional public service values indicator, that is, on independence, freedom from bribery and corruption, transparency of liability and administrative fairness, has been well above the EU average with Ireland ranking sixth of the EU 28 in this indicator in 2020. To the extent that there are data, in terms of these surveys which are only surveys, the data are positive about the operation and the integrity of our civil administration. That is not to say that there are not ideas there that we could bring in and use, and we engage with the OECD and others in relation to that.

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