Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 May 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2012
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Finance Accounts 2012

11:15 am

Mr. John Moran:

We have started to mention it. Maybe I can say this today, but I could not have said it two days ago. I do not think we should be ignorant of the fact that this is a very large multi-year project. Some of the work that Mr. Dempsey is trying to do on financial accounts concerns a series of improvements over many years which will involve quite a lot of effort by people. As we move out of a period of crisis management across the entire system into a period of stability and building for the future, I think there is an opportunity to focus on this kind of stuff as well. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is looking at techniques to allow a whole of government approach to reform.