Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Matters relating to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Discussion

Mr. Robert Watt:

We have about 200 people in our Department in the Vote sections who shadow all the other Departments. For the Department of Health, which is a big one, we would have a large number of people whose job it is to shadow that Department. There would be ongoing engagement and discussions, particularly on health, which is more complicated than other areas. There would be day-to-day discussions about different issues.