Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills
11:00 am
Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:
Yes, is the answer. I thank that this is where the Government has advanced with the pro tem public sector reform, which means it is within each Department now and we are establishing it now. We have an operational office to ensure that within each Department the centralising of the lessons learned in terms of change process and push for implementation has been put in place. There is one in the big public sector Departments, if one likes, and they are working together on a collective basis to address issues on a combined basis. A shared service expertise has come into the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform which is to challenge each Department to put more arrangements in place, but also to ensure lessons learned are disseminated among Departments in that regard.