Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 April 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Kirrane:

The investor programme has been operating since 2011. It was initially very slow to take off but in the past two years in particular there has been a major expansion of it. Currently, €300 million has been approved for investment. Most of that is now geared towards primary healthcare services, social housing and boosting certain parts of the economy in terms of job creation in the tourism sector and so on. It is a little early to say how much of that investment has been reviewed. Once we give a permission, it takes time to get up and running, and most of the investment has taken place in the past year.