Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Garda Oversight and Accountability: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Liam Kidd:

As Mr. Nugent highlighted, there is an ICT governance board which meets every quarter. The board comprises a representatives at assistant commissioner level for each of the programme boards, myself, the director of finance and representatives at assistant secretary level from the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. In terms of the role of the board, all ICT projects and expenditures are reviewed at every board meeting. A report goes to the board showing all of the ICT work and projects and all of the budgets and spending in hand. Everything in regard to projects and spending, therefore, is governed by the board. Separate to the board, there are programme boards at the business level under the strategic transformation office and they drive the Commissioner's modernisation and reform programme. Does that answer the Deputy's question?