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)
1:55 pm
Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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On subhead B7, consultancy and related costs, are there any comments or questions? On subhead B8, Centre for Management and Organisation Development, are there any comments or questions? On subhead B9, reform agenda, are there any comments or questions? The Minister referred to subhead B10, employee assistance officer shared service, earlier in his comments. I note on page 29 there is a 12.5% decrease in expenditure in 2013 over 2012. Is that because the purpose of this in terms of getting joint services going is to reduce costs in the first instance? Is this a reduction in the costs as a result of the joint services or is it a result of the costs of the structure of the joint services?