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
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
It is particularly relevant for the OGP because it sends the money out to all other entities, if I am correct. That is one of its main functions.
It is ironic that it will pay a penalty but will get it back in the other hand. There is no real punishment or no real cost. The National Gallery, another State entity which was before us, had a nightmare and will have to find the money to figure things out whereas in this case it is: "There is going to be a penalty but, what about it, we will get it back". I do not like that, but what can we do?
In the time remaining, I will talk about the national development plan. Why has there been persistent underspending on some capital projects across the NDP? We got the national development plan, an incredibly ambitious document, but we see so many projects where a shovel has never been put in the ground. How is the Department working through that and trying to get projects up and running?
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