Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

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

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion

Dr. Ray Griffin:

No. From the capital tracker, we can see that there was €18.4 billion in completed projects last year. To find out what those projects actually were, one needs to get their names from the tracker and google Ministers’ Twitter feeds, newspaper articles and Government press releases. It is not possible to identify the moneys. Of perhaps most importance, it is not possible to do so authoritatively to such an extent that one can say that this is the definitive list of what has happened. Sometimes, a project can have multiple income sources and go through an agency, for example, the HSE, which sends the funding on via a grant to another agency. The information is never brought together again.

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