Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2023
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)
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
In the context of managing public expenditure versus reform for the better, which is the context in which the Department was set up, our views on that particular strategy might differ. Are there strategies in place which may help to manage costs but breach, for the want of a more correct term, the reform function in terms of people's rights? How does the Minister manage to balance the reform function coming into play as well? In a situation where something could potentially cost vast sums of money, the Minister will have his public expenditure hat on, but at the same time he must examine the issue in the context of wider reform.
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