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)
Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
On data collection, is the Minister of State satisfied that the right amount and right type of data is collected to use public spending for more strategic purposes, such as industrial policy purposes? We can spend up to €19 billion on public procurement, but I find that there is very little data to show where it is going, to what effect and, indeed, how it is benefitting communities. I am aware that the OGP does its tendering and spending analysis. However, that is not done on an annual basis, so there is a lag between the time the data is collected and published. This means that the data, when published, is already quite outdated. In addition, it only covers a sample of the total spend on procurement.
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