Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 November 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 (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
On these Votes in general, that is, Votes 11, 14, 17 and 18, the chair of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, Seamus Coffey, has said the Government is budgeting like there is no tomorrow. I have raised with the Minister previously issues around the spending review process, which has been quietly dropped. Between 2017 and 2022, there was an average of 26 spending reviews annually published; in 2021, there were 37; in 2023, only 11; but none in 2024 and 2025. There have been various other reports published but they are not part of the spending review process. There was a review of the spending review process done in 2024 but that has never been published. Will the Minister share with the committee the review of the spending review process that was done in 2024?
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