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
Séamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
I understand that.
The Comptroller and Auditor General sets out Mr. Moloney's Department's role and it is an onerous one, as it is central in setting standards and procedures for financial accountability and governance of public bodies and the evaluation of public spending and investment. It is an onerous task. We all appreciate that. However, in projects other than capital ones that have become known in the public domain, such as the bicycle shelter, the Arts Council IT project and so forth, we have seen waste of public funding. Mr. Moloney's Department is ultimately responsible for public expenditure. It is in the title. What lessons have we learned from those cases and what procedures have been put in place to ensure we do not have repeated examples of waste of public money?
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