Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management
2:00 am
Mr. David O'Sullivan:
Oversight of expenditure is obviously important to the Department. If I go back a bit, data is important in making better decisions, informing people and helping in creating evidence-based policy. The EU itself has recognised the importance of data and has published an EU strategy for data. From a procurement point of view, data is important to the State for building confidence in decisions of Government and also for resourcing organisations. In terms of sourcing data, the EU has recognised its importance and is creating a public procurement data space.
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