Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
3:10 pm
Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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The reason we now have a Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is to answer the very question the Chairman has asked. We have a dedicated Department that is doing two things. First, it constantly keeps a much more vigorous eye on expenditure and, second, it aligns that expenditure to necessary public sector reforms. You seem to be saying, Chairman, that a further light of publicity needs to be shone on this. That is a sensible proposal.