Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
9:30 am
Mr. David Moloney:
Regarding the application of the public spending code, it is a set of rules that need to be complied with in order to ensure value for money for the taxpayer. We do not consider they, in themselves, have an impact in slowing down of the process because many actions are taken in parallel. We encourage contracting parties to move through the bases of the public spending code as quickly as possible. Many of the delays in project formulation can be about deciding what the project is and how to specify it, getting consensus on what the project is and going through the various consultation processes in the public sector, which is not a feature elsewhere.