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
I look forward to our having that conversation at that point. I just felt that those reports indicated that the concerns we had raised on the committee were perhaps coming to fruition, but I respect that we will look at that in more detail at another point.
My other question about this Vote relates to the new requirement post 2030 that 20% of the Civil Service will have to speak Irish. Has that been factored into any change in the Estimates at this point? I am aware that there is a committee looking into this, but is it doing so in the context of the Estimates? Furthermore, is the Government taking a wait-and-see approach until 2030 or is it looking to increase recruitment before 2030?
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