Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (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)
2:00 am
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
I think if you look at the growth or outputs in terms of public services, economic growth, the distributional model from the budgetary allocations that have been made in recent years, and even our PISA scores from education, for example, there are really strongly metrics and even growth in jobs and the enterprise economy. There are lots of metrics which speak positively. The one deficit we have in different metrics is in infrastructure and I know part of that is the stop-start cycle which we have had over previous decades. It is something we need to fix in the medium-term and longer term economic cycle, and I think we are all agreed on that. but I am happy to go into further detail on that.
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