Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
1:45 pm
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The money is to be used for the new document management system but the Chairman is making a general point on the old regime, where people felt they had to spend money or lose it. That is gone, as we now have a multi-annual funding system. That used to apply only to the capital side but I have migrated it to the current side as well, so there is now a three year envelope of money where unspent funding can be carried over in order to get better value. Purchasing can be targeted to the right time of year if there is an advantage to it.