Mr. David Moloney:

There is a central unit for IGEES within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. That central unit co-ordinates the network of IGEES people who are employed in almost all Government Departments. There are IGEES people, taking staff movement into account, in all or almost all Government Departments. The central unit recruits and allocates people to different Government Departments. Those Departments have a number of different ways in which they organise internally. Some have IGEES units, others have strategic policy units and others again have analysis units. They feed into the analytical work done in those Departments, alongside other policymakers.

IGEES does a number of key things. For example, it supports the annual spending review process. There are a large number of analytical papers produced and published under that process. The idea is to inform and feed into the policymaking process.