Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission

2:00 am

Mr. Peter Finnegan:

There is one in the account. We manage them extremely tightly. We have a really tight governance process in the Oireachtas. There is both an external and an internal governance process. Externally, all our plans have to be approved by the Department of public expenditure, by what is called the digital government oversight unit, DGOU. Any project over €5 million is subject to specific arrangements with peer review by external people. That is the first point. Second, within the Oireachtas, our governance system is extremely demanding in terms of projects and that is how it should be. One of the challenges with-----

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