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
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
I actually have a draft letter to send back to the Deputy because we debated this in a parliamentary question. Deputy Nash has raised it and perhaps Deputy Doherty. I am happy to write a technical briefing. There are multiple reviews that have been published and there is a misunderstanding about that in the context of some of the questions I have received. I spoke to officials beforehand. I am due to send the Deputy a letter on that. There are extensive areas that have been published. I said that over the period 2024 and 2025, 63 papers have been published. There has been extensive work in my Department around the medium-term expenditure framework and other documents but anything that is researched is being published as it is being progressed. I think there is a misunderstanding around that. The principal officer and the assistant secretary spoke about it beforehand and they are more than happy to provide a technical briefing to finance spokespeople on that particular matter because it is not what is being asserted.
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